We performed a comparison between Cisco Duo and Cisco ISE (Identity Services Engine) based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Cisco Security Portfolio solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."Regarding the valuable features, I would say that Duo Security is easy to use, has speed, and is dependable."
"I like the set time that users can log into devices during the day and how many times they can do so. I also like the ability to restrict the regions from which the user can get in. Users outside of our country or even the town cannot log in."
"The solution is easy to use."
"Duo Security improved my organization by helping us secure all access points within the company infrastructure."
"Multifactor authentication is the most valuable feature."
"We were considering purchasing other products, like AMP for Endpoints, and it was not properly integrated with the firewall function. It might be better now with SecureX."
"The app has greater stability than rival solutions such as Google Authenticator, and Duo Push authentication is a valuable feature."
"If you have to log in to something, you must go to Duo Security to confirm that you're who you are on your phone."
"The ability to integrate our Cisco AnyConnect connections to the active directory has been great."
"There is good integration with third-party systems like antivirus patch management, MDM."
"Typically, the installation is pretty simple."
"Cisco ISE now competes with any other product in the space because of its centralized and unified highly secure access control with ISE."
"Since migrating towards doing wired ports over ISE with 802.1X and MAB authentication, our organization's security risk has been better. We have been able to establish better layouts, so devices can move and we don't have to worry about where they need to go."
"The product is stable."
"For us and our clients, the most valuable features of Identity Services Engine are really around the rich contact sharing that ISE gives you."
"It works as a good RADIUS server. It has lots of features. It works with all the proprietary Cisco AB pairs and features."
"I'm not a big fan of relicensing products every year or two years, but that's the model at the moment. I prefer to go back to licensing perpetually or permanent licensing."
"They could just continue to add more integrations."
"We have had instances where Duo Security stops working on a user's device, which we have fixed by uninstalling and then reinstalling it."
"The technical engineers in the first line of support should improve their knowledge."
"Cisco can further enhance the integrations, as they possess exceptional integrations with various providers' products and feature sets."
"The product could be more intuitive on the app."
"We were considering purchasing other products, like AMP for Endpoints, and it was not properly integrated with the firewall function. It might be better now with SecureX."
"We have a 24 hour timer for our Duo cookie and we would like to reduce this to a shorter time when using Duo."
"The intuitiveness of the user interface could be improved."
"They should improve the upgrades. It's not easy to upgrade the solution."
"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."
"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."
"Cisco ISE can become quite complex, especially with policy sets, the entire authentication process, and everything involved."
"Some of ISE's features need to be more agile. For example, we couldn't integrate our data because Cisco needs your data to be in its own format."
"Cisco ISE has numerous features that are impractical, and I won't utilize them since they require payment."
"It does a good job of establishing trust for every access request. We have had a little bit of a challenge with profiling, but we are probably about 80% there."
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Cisco Duo is ranked 8th in Cisco Security Portfolio with 55 reviews while Cisco ISE (Identity Services Engine) is ranked 1st in Cisco Security Portfolio with 135 reviews. Cisco Duo is rated 8.8, while Cisco ISE (Identity Services Engine) is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Cisco Duo writes "Helps reduce the risk of a breach and is easy to deploy and onboard". 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". Cisco Duo is most compared with Microsoft Entra ID, Fortinet FortiToken, Fortinet FortiAuthenticator, Yubico YubiKey and OneSpan DIGIPASS, whereas Cisco ISE (Identity Services Engine) is most compared with Aruba ClearPass, Fortinet FortiNAC, Forescout Platform, CyberArk Privileged Access Manager and Fortinet FortiAuthenticator. See our Cisco Duo vs. Cisco ISE (Identity Services Engine) report.
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