Cisco Identity Services Engine (ISE) Pros and Cons

Radius and posturing module and profiling. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

GUI administrator issue after upgrade from 2.2 to 2.7 Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I like that it makes you feel secure browsing through internet Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

There is nothing I don't dislike I enjoy using this software. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

It helps manage user access and create specific profiles. You can see when a user tries to access a profiles in real-time. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The UI can get a bit confusing to navigate at the start. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

good documentation, fast deployment, was better that fortinac. I think that once you get comfortable with the interface it becomes quite an asset to a network infrastructure. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

interface is hard to understand right away, but that goes for all NAC products. I didnt like the new licensing style either. Also Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I have been using Cisco ISE for more than 8 years now. Its the best easy to manage and most robust security policy server. The best thing I like about ISE is its ease of use in intuitiveness. Its easy to deploy and very flexible with your security policies. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

There is nothing to dislike about ISE, its absolutely out of the world.There is no recommendation as the product is absolutely brilliant. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

ISE is the de facto standard for identity services and network security. If you are a Cisco hardware user then there’s no better solution. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

ISE has a lot of complexity due to the inherent way 802.1x works. Different clients with authenticate in different ways and the user experience will not be equal across the board. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

ISE is the glue for everything else. It works easily with all of the various network hardware - where users would be connecting (wired or wireless), as well as Active Directory (or any other external authentication system). It works on its own to create a BYoD wireless network, with the switches to provide more isolation, or even with DNA, ACI, AnyConnect, and other Cisco solutions to gain even more insight into devices and allowing micro-segmentation. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

It is VERY complicated to initially setup. Get some training and you STILL want to hire someone to assist. But its complications are largely because of all the granularity and options that you have. Once it is setup, it is fairly easy to navigate around and find the answers you may be looking for. But any new features you may want to enable go back to the initial "complicated" process. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The product worked as expected when we implemented it. Our existing Cisco devices integrated with minimal configuration and impact. Cisco Support was willing to help with any issues we encountered. Cisco ISE offers a very good logging engine that facilitates troubleshooting. Policy configuration can also be easily done in the user interface. When users have trouble connecting, it provides clear steps for resolution. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The product updates have led us to find errors with limited gains from new features. The tool's automatic profiling feature could be improved further for more accurate discovery. The licensing model can be costly if implemented on a large scale. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I like the ability to tailor rules of what connects to our networks. We can define state of the machine policy meets exact requirements to identify who or what is connecting to our network via Network Access Control policies. We can adapt different policies for different networks and where able to migrate from ACS. ISE Api allows developers to create self service portal for other engineers with little overhead learning another system to keep new device secure. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Currently our implementation has a few issues with High availability so we have a staged solution that causes some delays in onboarding new devices. This is possibly just our design implementation can be improved but having not designed it I do not have specific details and may not be an issue with the product. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Cisco ISE is scalable so that provides easy to use and nice customer support. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

We encountered some issues while setup process. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.