We performed a comparison between Atos DirX Directory and Cisco ISE (Identity Services Engine) based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Microsoft, F5, Apache and others in Application Infrastructure."The role and attribute-based access control has been greatly improved."
"DirX Directory is the best feature of the product: a very fast, stable LDAP directory."
"The most valuable feature is its knowledge."
"The solution offers high performance."
"I like the guest access feature, which has been important for us."
"Using this solution gives us the ability to allow proper access to the network."
"We have seen ROI. It has done its job. It has protected us when we needed it to."
"The features that do work, work well, and we use it on a daily basis."
"It has all of the features available, in fact, more than what you need."
"It does what it's supposed to. We use a certificate-based authentication method for corporate-managed devices. That means when a user walks in with their managed laptop and plugs it into the network, it chats with Cisco ISE in the background, allows it on the network, and away they go."
"One of the advantages is that you can easily find rogue endpoints. For example, if you don't want to allow any endpoints where you don't know the people plugging into what kind of devices, ISE can give you a big, clear picture, e.g., what kind of endpoints are getting connected to your network. That is one of the advantages."
"SGTs are valuable because they make it easy to enforce policies, instead of pushing them across all the other platforms."
"The price could be better. It would be better if they developed a better endpoint solution in the next release."
"The Self-Service Portal is old school and it lacks easy accessibility for users."
"Needs more available consultants and implementation partners."
"An overall modernization of the product is required in order to keep up with newer products."
"The user interface could be more convenient for people that don't know the tool too intensively."
"The installation is not straightforward, it took us approximately one month."
"We would definitely like to see a little bit of an improvement in the web GUI navigation. Some of the things are a little bit hidden in the drop-down menu. If we could get a way to get to those quicker, it'd be much more useful."
"The tracking mechanism in Cisco ISE is relatively costly, especially its vendor-specific protocol."
"I'm working from China currently and the only real issue is that, within the country, there's some concern around Cisco and its ability to offer the solution for the long term. As the United States has banned the Huawei version in their country, we feel there may be retaliation in ours and Cisco will get banned as a countermeasure from the government. The future of Cisco in China is in question. Our local partners are worried about the situation."
"The Guest Network verification needs to add a QR code option."
"There is room for improvement in its ability to allow end users to self-enroll their devices. Instead, you should be able to assign that permission by AD group, which is currently not available."
"In an upcoming release, the solution needs to be more agentless and more independent. Additionally, there could be improved integration with other next-generation solutions, such as Palo Alto, Fortinet, or Check Point."
"The initial setup process is complex since there are so many big components."
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Atos DirX Directory is ranked 19th in Application Infrastructure with 4 reviews while Cisco ISE (Identity Services Engine) is ranked 1st in Network Access Control (NAC) with 136 reviews. Atos DirX Directory is rated 6.8, while Cisco ISE (Identity Services Engine) is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Atos DirX Directory writes "An identity management system with valuable knowledge". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Cisco ISE (Identity Services Engine) writes "Gives us that extra ability to assist the end user and make sure that we are making them happy". Atos DirX Directory is most compared with One Identity Manager, CyberArk Privileged Access Manager and SailPoint IdentityIQ, whereas Cisco ISE (Identity Services Engine) is most compared with Aruba ClearPass, Fortinet FortiNAC, Forescout Platform, CyberArk Privileged Access Manager and Fortinet FortiAuthenticator.
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