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Cisco ACI vs Trend Micro Deep Security comparison

 

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Apr 20, 2025

Review summaries and opinions

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

ROI

Sentiment score
6.7
Cisco ACI offers varied results, with some users seeing cost savings and efficiency, while others face challenges and mixed ROI.
Sentiment score
8.2
Trend Micro Deep Security enhances productivity, cost efficiency, and threat management, offering strong financial protection and significant ROI.
Efficient utilization leads to cost savings and efficiency gains.
It adds value by providing centralized control over servers and endpoints.
 

Customer Service

Sentiment score
7.1
Cisco ACI's support is praised for responsiveness, though regional differences and training consistency impact overall satisfaction.
Sentiment score
8.3
Trend Micro Deep Security's customer service is praised for knowledgeable support, though some users note delays in resolution.
The technical support from Cisco is satisfactory.
Their technical support is top-notch.
Trend Micro's technical support is delayed in responding at times, while at other times, the response is fast.
 

Scalability Issues

Sentiment score
7.7
Cisco ACI offers scalable, efficient networking with easy deployment and high performance, ideal for large enterprises despite occasional bugs.
Sentiment score
8.1
Trend Micro Deep Security is praised for scalability, supporting diverse enterprises and regions, despite some cost concerns.
The solution offers high performance and scalability with connectivity options up to 100 GS.
The scalability of Cisco ACI supports our organization's growth effectively.
Trend Micro Deep Security is highly scalable.
 

Stability Issues

Sentiment score
7.5
Cisco ACI has become highly stable with minimal issues, praised for reliability and regular performance-enhancing updates.
Sentiment score
8.9
Trend Micro Deep Security is highly stable and reliable, with minor, quickly resolved issues and strong threat detection.
Trend Micro Deep Security is very stable and provides protection at all times without issues.
 

Room For Improvement

Cisco ACI users seek simplified interfaces, better documentation, enhanced integration, and improved support to overcome complexity and challenges.
Trend Micro Deep Security needs improvements in distribution, integration, UI, Mac support, pricing, and automation, plus enhanced reporting and training.
Their lack of on-ground offices can result in business losses.
Additionally, the product is overpriced, which makes it difficult to sell to many customers.
The user interface could be more user-friendly, as navigation sometimes requires familiarity with the console.
 

Setup Cost

Cisco ACI pricing is high but valued for features and support, though smart licensing remains a challenge.
Trend Micro Deep Security offers robust features but is perceived as expensive, with AWS Marketplace offering potential discounts.
Cisco's pricing tends to be on the higher end compared to other vendors.
Trend Micro Deep Security is considered overpriced, which poses a challenge in selling it to many customers.
The pricing is moderate, not expensive or very cheap.
 

Valuable Features

Cisco ACI provides integration, programmability, scalability, and unified management for efficient and automated data center network solutions.
Trend Micro Deep Security offers robust protection with agentless features, integration, scalability, multi-platform security, and user-friendly management.
It is essential for growing our data center connectivity and enablement for our customers.
Its features, like easy application deployment, short deployment time for new applications or software, and eliminating the hassle of STP, are appreciated.
It is well-suited for state government customers who require a complete sense of security.
Trend Micro Deep Security offers valuable features such as virtual patching, which allows me to manage server downtime challenges by taking care of threats.
 

Categories and Ranking

Cisco ACI
Ranking in Cloud and Data Center Security
4th
Average Rating
8.0
Reviews Sentiment
6.5
Number of Reviews
101
Ranking in other categories
Network Virtualization (1st), Software Defined Networking (SDN) (2nd)
Trend Micro Deep Security
Ranking in Cloud and Data Center Security
8th
Average Rating
8.6
Reviews Sentiment
7.2
Number of Reviews
90
Ranking in other categories
Virtualization Security (1st)
 

Mindshare comparison

As of May 2025, in the Cloud and Data Center Security category, the mindshare of Cisco ACI is 5.7%, down from 7.2% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Trend Micro Deep Security is 2.9%, down from 5.9% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Cloud and Data Center Security
 

Featured Reviews

Raj Metkar - PeerSpot reviewer
Provides scalability, ease of migration for future DC moves, multi-tenancy and programmability
Cisco's MSO (Multi-Site Orchestrator) or NDO has room for improvement. Cisco monitors ACI through a product called NDI. I find it very frustrating that Cisco has multiple monitoring platforms. It has DNAC for monitoring Cisco NX-OS, campus switches, and any other routers and switches you would have in the environment. That same thing does not work for Cisco ACI monitoring. MEraki cloudbasd platform for Meraki which will get extended to Campus monitoring, to be honest Cisco never got Monitoring 100% right from days of CiscoWorks to Prime to current platforms. To monitor and manage Cisco ACI, you need to have another platform called NDI and Cisco Dashboard Insights. What frustrates me about Cisco is that it never has a central, single pane of glass platform for all its solutions. It has one thing for Cisco ACI and another thing for campus switches. I would really appreciate it if Cisco came up with something centralized to monitor everything. I haven't thought about anything since the Cisco NDO is quite advanced, and you can deploy your cloud networking through it. I don't know how many people use it. I might explore it as my cloud orchestration tool in the future. We do a lot of cloud automation using our scripts like TerraForm, but I would like to see people using NDO more. We could have more case studies on how many people use NDO for their cloud orchestration. That might be a much easier journey for people when they move from an on-premises data center into a cloud and move from one cloud to another cloud. That is where I personally see an orchestrator being effectively used for multiple deployments.
Nikhilesh Verma - PeerSpot reviewer
Offers a good firewall that blocks unwanted ports
In our company's infrastructure, we have not faced any challenges with the product. Considering the lack of issues or challenges faced with the use of the product in our company's environment, I feel that it is a good solution. Sometimes, the product is not very stable, but it is something that depends on the infrastructure in which the tool is used. The aforementioned area can be considered for improvement. If Trend Micro Deep Security wants to implement some new features in it, then I would say that it should focus from a networking point of view and see how to control network traffic specifically coming from external to internal traffic on the servers.
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Computer Software Company
22%
Financial Services Firm
13%
Manufacturing Company
8%
Government
7%
Educational Organization
40%
Computer Software Company
9%
Financial Services Firm
8%
Manufacturing Company
6%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
 

Questions from the Community

What are the biggest differences between Cisco ACI and VMware NSX?
There are some very major differences between both the Products and to name a few. -Cisco ACI have physical network gear (9K Switches) where the Code runs in ACI Policy Mode & the UCS server wh...
What are the biggest differences between Cisco ACI and VMware NSX?
Once you know your way around the Cisco ecosystem, using Cisco ACI is not so difficult. It is a global product, so when you change one interface, changes are automatically reflected on every switch...
What do you like most about Cisco ACI?
The flexibility of adding new components with minimal impact on existing services running in the data center is a key benefit of this ACI-based solution.
Is Crowdstrike Falcon better than Trend Micro Deep Security?
I like that Crowdstrike allows me to easily correlate data between my firewalls. What’s most useful for my needs is the intelligence modules feature. I also find that Crowdstrike Falcon’s dashboard...
What's the difference between Trend Micro Deep Security and Trend Micro Apex One?
Trend Micro Deep Security offers a lot of features. It guarantees security for your data center, cloud, and containers - all with a unified and comprehensive SaaS solution and without compromising ...
 

Also Known As

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Deep Security
 

Overview

 

Sample Customers

Bowling Green State University, du, Qatar University
Rush University Medical Center, Guess? Inc., Mazda Motor Logistics Europe, MEDHOST, KSC Commercial Internet Co., Ricoh Company Ltd., Square Enix, SoftBank Telecom, Telecom Italia, United Way of Greater Atlanta, A&W Food Services of Canada
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