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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
7.5
Trend Micro Deep Security users report financial benefits through cost savings, improved security, enhanced efficiency, and significant returns.
Efficient utilization leads to cost savings and efficiency gains.
If the customer is interested in technical capabilities, we demonstrate the tools, setup, implementation, and their working.
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
8.2
Trend Micro Deep Security support is praised for responsiveness and expertise, but complex cases sometimes experience delays.
The technical support from Cisco is satisfactory.
They have very professional engineers, and they often respond effectively.
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
7.7
Trend Micro Deep Security is praised for scalable, flexible licensing, accommodating diverse needs, including cloud options, despite occasional challenges.
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.
In most organizations, they are using a mix of these security solutions.
 

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
7.6
Trend Micro Deep Security is highly stable and reliable, though minor deployment and configuration issues may occasionally occur.
Trend Micro Deep Security is very stable and provides protection at all times without issues.
We believe that software works fine until it is patched, managed, or monitored by the IT teams.
 

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 improved integration, interface, pricing, support, and advanced features like automation and cloud compatibility.
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.
Microsoft provides ATP solution in their Defender, that not only filters the emails but also detects spam and malware in attachments, and it provides security for SharePoint solution, Teams, and other products available on the cloud.
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 varied pricing, competitive for some but cited as costly by others compared to competitors.
Cisco's pricing tends to be on the higher end compared to other vendors.
We give a fair comparison of all the products, and give them clear insights of the products, which makes it helpful for the customer to make a final decision to purchase the license or product.
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 excels with agentless deployment, integrations, and comprehensive security features, earning high user satisfaction.
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 provides alerts on suspicious activities, and anti-malware protection helps by detecting and mitigating threats through real-time alerts.
Despite its high cost, the quality of service and security features make it the preferred choice for our clients.
For threat detection, they use heuristic behavior detection, and sometimes, if they think there is a sort of attack which is new, they alert you, and they detect and show where the attack is coming from.
 

Categories and Ranking

Cisco ACI
Ranking in Cloud and Data Center Security
5th
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
6th
Average Rating
8.6
Reviews Sentiment
6.9
Number of Reviews
91
Ranking in other categories
Virtualization Security (1st)
 

Mindshare comparison

As of June 2025, in the Cloud and Data Center Security category, the mindshare of Cisco ACI is 5.5%, down from 7.2% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Trend Micro Deep Security is 2.9%, down from 5.4% 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.
Nadeem Syed - PeerSpot reviewer
Offers sandboxing unit and virtual patch management, stop all the vulnerabilities and exploits
It's a good product. It's taken the majority of the market share in Pakistan from any other product; the major feature of Deep Security is its virtual patching management, which they download on the cloud. They stop all the vulnerabilities and exploits as long as you don't download all the updates and install them physically on the servers. So, in that sense, it is a very good product. And we've been selling it for a long time; it's been four to five years. And we have a lot of customers for it. Trend Micro Deep Security has a sandboxing unit, which is one of the major features that actually gives you a chance to detect any kind of threat in your network or on your servers. Also, if users truly want to secure their network and the servers, they may want to use XDR as well, which has all these features we just discussed.
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Computer Software Company
22%
Financial Services Firm
11%
Manufacturing Company
7%
Government
7%
Educational Organization
30%
Computer Software Company
11%
Financial Services Firm
9%
Manufacturing Company
7%
 

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
 

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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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