Cisco Identity Services Engine (ISE) Pros and Cons

Cisco ISE is an excellent NAC solution that gives complete visibility about our network. It tells details about endpoints running in our environment and what operating system they contain, which is very useful for auditing purposes. Features like pre-auth, and 802.1x make it the best solution for banks and healthcare sector. The TAC team is very supportive, and they help us in deployment to make the process fat so we can have maximum ROI. It gives complete details about window-based devices. If anyone uses cisco network devices in their environment, then cisco ISE is a perfect choice. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Cisco ISE is a completely Agent Based solution. Hence, this is an area of improvement because agents can not be deployed on every IT asset. Moreover, deploying agent on every endpoint is a challenging task that takes a lot of time and causes delays in production and implementation. IoT, Biometric devices, and digital clocks can not work with the agent-based solution. So, security gaps always remain because a malicious user can enter the network through IoT devices. Apart from this, the user interface is not at all good. We do not have the option of posture checking. We can not scan for open ports in our environment. These features are primarily present in other NAC solutions. The implementation takes a lot of time because we need to change our entire network to Cisco. After all, it does not support other network devices. This makes the cost very high. It does not help a heterogeneous network. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The centralised management, easy to configure and simple deployment functiontionalities of Cisco ISE are exceptional Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Powering up Cisco ISE and accessing GUI takes too much time. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

We can remove Port Security on Switches, No more voilations on switch Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Switch configurations are complicated and unstable Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Easy to manage network device and end point devices, all of it in just one dashboard to see those all. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I think the dashboard and UI can be more simplified so it is easier to navigate and see the important things Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

1- Integratiom with AD users

2- guest clients handeling

3- client's health check strong features

4- byod Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

1- Pricing (having comparison in mind with other vendors who provide more multiple features in one device like Sangfor et). Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Unlike other AAA solution, ISE produses high range of integrated tool for managing the users wired or wireless Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Sometimes, too many options within the config setting confused. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

To identity device is legitimate to connecting to network and can use many policy to enchanted security Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Sometimes slow loading page and request all node restart if need to promoted secondary node Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Features that are offered by cisco ISE are so good compare to traditional NAC solution Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Cisco ISE is costly and there is some compatibility issues Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The UI and the Objectives were extraordinary. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The prolonged tasks whom one can fetch nothing but disappointment Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Interface with elaborated mathods that help Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Operation of each logical components options Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.