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.

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Cisco Secure Endpoint vs. Cisco SecureX [EOL]

May 2024

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Categories and Ranking

Cisco Secure Endpoint

Ranking in Cisco Security Portfolio

7th

Average Rating

8.6

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Endpoint Protection Platform (EPP) (11th), Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR) (9th)

Cisco SecureX [EOL]

Ranking in Cisco Security Portfolio

9th

Average Rating

9.0

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Application Security Tools (18th), Vulnerability Management (15th), Extended Detection and Response (XDR) (15th)

Mindshare comparison

As of July 2024, in the Cisco Security Portfolio category, the mindshare of Cisco Secure Endpoint is 7.1%, up from 5.1% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Cisco SecureX [EOL] is 3.1%, down from 7.3% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Cisco Security Portfolio

Unique Categories:

Endpoint Protection Platform (EPP)

1.5%

Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR)

1.8%

Vulnerability Management

0.2%

Featured Reviews

Brad Wright

Principal Architect - Cybersecurity at Logicalis

Aug 3, 2023

Does a great job of allowing us to take the individual endpoint assets, do an inventory, and know what the normal state is

I think a large benefit of using Secure Endpoint is the ability to offload the personnel. We have a crisis in the country where we have too many jobs and there are not enough people, and using something like Secure Endpoint and integrating the Cisco ecosystem allows us to pull in all of this data into a single place and offset those people that we have to have to do the job. It allows us to do some threat hunting and make good decisions with good tools, and it's affordable. Secure Endpoint has decreased our time to remediate by providing the tools and the integrations we need so we can quickly look across our entire network, look for those threats, and actually make good decisions. Cisco Secure Endpoint provides us the scale to quickly reduce the time to find out about an event by integrating into different platforms and providing threat intelligence specifically from Talos so we could quickly find these things. Where things used to take days, we can now do things in hours. Cisco Secure Endpoint does a great job of allowing us to take the individual endpoint assets, do an inventory, and know what the normal state is, so we can have a delta when things change, and we can look for consistencies. And when those things change, we get alerts. We can know what's happening with those boxes. The great part about it is I was able to eliminate lots of other features of doing inventory management and spreadsheets and see what's going on. It's also allowing us to integrate all of the other secure malware antivirus-type platforms that do a single platform. And do threat hunting with that. Five out of five times, Secure Endpoint helps every customer I talk to improve their cybersecurity resilience. It provides integrations, it provides an affordable and easy-to-implement package where we can quickly talk to customers and work with them to get a solution in place. Logicalis does a great job of taking the package and not just installing it, but doing it in a way that a customer can understand how to use that platform afterward.

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Miguel Angel Rico Paez

Engineering Director at Connext

Aug 5, 2022

We need this solution's visibility into our customers' applications for threat defense

This solution is a new solution. It gets visibility into all the components about security. For example, in the Firepower application, emails, and in the cloud, I can see across those in SecureX. It shows all the layers and the entire security solution. This is very important and key in the world…

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Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"The most valuable feature of the solution is its technical support."

"appreciate the File Trajectory feature, as it's excellent for an analyst or mobile analyst. I can track everything that happens on our server from my PC or device. Integration with SecureX is a welcome feature because it connects Cisco's integrated security portfolio with our complete infrastructure. Sandboxing is helpful, and integration with the Cisco environment is excellent as we use many of their products, and that's very valuable for us."

"There are no issues or drops in the solution's performance...The solution's technical support was helpful."

"It doesn't impact the devices. It is an agent-based solution, and we see no performance knock on cell phones. That was a big thing for us, especially in the mobile world. We don't see battery degradation like you do with other solutions which really drain the battery, as they're constantly doing things. That can shorten the useful life of a device."

"The integration with other Cisco products seemed to be really effective. We had Umbrella in place and we were using AnyConnect as well as Firepower. Once a threat was detected, being able to do the threat lookups and the live tracking was really useful."

"The product itself is pretty reliable. The security features that it has make it reliable."

"Among the most valuable features are the exclusions. And on the scalability side, we can integrate well with the SIEM orchestration engine and a number of applications that are proprietary or open source."

"It used to take us a month to find out that something is infected, we now know that same day, as soon it is infected."

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"The forensics are amazing because when you have enrichment, and the solutions talk with each other, when you need it, you have the ability to know everything in the organization: when, why, whatever."

"The most beneficial feature of Cisco SecureX for cybersecurity efforts is its integration with other Cisco solutions and the environment. This sets it apart, as its APIs and overall integration capabilities are very strong. Additionally, its detection capabilities are commendable."

"I like that I don't have to jump around to five different products and log into five different places to view the data that it returns."

"It has evolved a lot, just that monitoring piece to the current Orchestrator piece. The additional analytics are there. They now have something called Insight, which can basically take data from Microsoft Azure AD and Intune to give us information about our endpoints. This is detailed information about the endpoints, from Secure Endpoint and all these different products. So, it is just constantly evolving. Every time that it evolves, we have more information with more visibility. There are more features that we have that just make everything so much easier, and it is in one place. I don't have to keep going back and forth. I don't have to go to Secure Endpoint and ISE to get the data. I don't have to go to Intune on Microsoft to get the information. It is all in one place."

"The automation and orchestration tools are the most valuable features."

"One of the most valuable features is the simplicity of deploying SecureX. It's very easy to do that and then you gain very detailed visibility into everything that's going on in your network and, obviously, at the device level. There's just a wealth of information that you can pull from all of these products that are part of SecureX. You know exactly if you have an issue or not."

"SecureX takes all the separate pieces of security within your company, adds in intelligence from different sites and services on the internet, and makes them work together."

"The ability to create firewalls online has been most valuable including the ability to create rules."

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Cons

"It is not very stable because we have new versions four times a year, which fixes bugs. We had some problems with some deployments."

"It could be improved in connection with artificial intelligence and IoT."

"The thing I hate the most, which they have not fixed, is when it creates duplicate entries within a console. If you have a computer and you upgrade from Windows 7 to Windows 10, or you upgrade your agent from version 6 to 7, it creates a new instance in there instead of updating the information. Instead of paying a license for one computer, I have to license two computers until I manually go in, search for all the duplicate entries, and clean them out myself."

"The pricing policy could be more competitive, similar to Cisco's offerings."

"The technical support is very slow."

"It cannot currently block URLs over websites."

"It does not include encryption and decryption of local file shares."

"Logging could be better in terms of sending more logs to Cisco Firepower or Cisco ASA. That's an area where it could be made better."

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"They could expand into more areas. The more third-parties that we have tied into it, the better. The capabilities are there. As they just continue to involve the product, the more things that you can look into, then the more analytics that you can get. Also, the more data that we can get, then the better off we will be."

"I would like it to integrate with another solution, e.g., DNA. I would like it to connect to that solution, but not the security aspect."

"what's missing right now is the multi-tenant capability."

"If they could make the Cisco Umbrella piece a little bit more advanced or easier to manage, that would help. We use it for filtering and when you compare it to a normal content filter, it lacks some functionality."

"The automation and orchestration could be simpler. It could be that all the other parts are that easy to use so that these stick out as a negative, but that's the trickiest part for us. The workflows within the orchestration are just a bit more difficult."

"For us, the biggest sticking point is that the product is not being designed for multi-tenancy use at present, from an MSP perspective."

"Remediation stuff could be integrated into the product's automation."

"One of the improvements the product needs is more integration with collaboration platforms."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"Our company was very happy with the price of Cisco AMP. It was about a third of what we were paying for System Center Endpoint Protection."

"It is a subscription-based product."

"I rate the pricing a five or six on a scale of one to ten, where one is expensive, and ten is cheap."

"Because we do see the value of what it's bringing, I think they have priced it well."

"We had faced some license issues, but it has been improved. At the beginning of the implementation, we faced a lot of licensing issues, but now, we have EA licensing, which gives us an opportunity to grow."

"...the licensing needs to be improved. All the product features we need are there. It's just a matter of the complexity and the different offerings and trying to figure things out."

"In our case, it is a straightforward annual payment through our Enterprise Agreement."

"We have a license for 3,000 users and if we get up to 3,100 users, it doesn't stop working, but on the next renewal date you're supposed to go in there and add that extra 100 licenses. It's really good that they let you grow and expand and then pay for it. Sometimes, with other products, you overuse a license and they just don't work."

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"Cisco SecureX is more expensive than Trend Micro. However, considering the integration capabilities with other solutions and the quality of technical support, I believe there's justification for the price difference."

"The product is absolutely free to any customer. As such, the only thing one must keep in mind is that as long as he already has one Cisco security product, irregardless of what that product is, SecureX is available for free."

"It would be nice if they had a different pricing model. Most of our budget for projects goes towards Cisco."

"It is free. It can't get any better than that."

"The pricing is competitive, especially for education institutions. Licensing can be a little bit difficult to navigate, especially with resellers with Cisco, but for us it has been pretty easy."

"For the value you get, the pricing of the solution is excellent."

"You can spend less money for another solution, but if you really want to have a good solution you have to pay. We are happy that we are getting such a good solution for what we are spending."

"It comes free with all Cisco products. So, it is a good price."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Computer Software Company

17%

Government

Financial Services Firm

Manufacturing Company

Computer Software Company

38%

Financial Services Firm

Manufacturing Company

Government

Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

Questions from the Community

What do you like most about Cisco Secure Endpoint?

The product's initial setup phase was very simple.

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Cisco Secure Endpoint?

It is an expensive solution.

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What needs improvement with Cisco Secure Endpoint?

The solution can be cheaper.

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What do you like most about Cisco SecureX?

Integrates well with our existing security infrastructure.

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Cisco SecureX?

Cisco SecureX is more expensive than Trend Micro. However, considering the integration capabilities with other solutions and the quality of technical support, I believe there's justification for th...

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What needs improvement with Cisco SecureX?

One area for improvement in SecureX could be additional on-premises options for organizations like ours that require more control over certain aspects of the platform. I also think enhancing automa...

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Comparisons

Microsoft Defender for Endpoint vs Cisco Secure Endpoint

Compared 16% of the time

CrowdStrike Falcon vs Cisco Secure Endpoint

Compared 11% of the time

Cortex XDR by Palo Alto Networks vs Cisco Secure Endpoint

Compared 9% of the time

Check Point Harmony Endpoint vs Cisco Secure Endpoint

Compared 5% of the time

VMware Carbon Black Endpoint vs Cisco Secure Endpoint

Compared 5% of the time

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Microsoft Defender XDR vs Cisco SecureX [EOL]

Compared 18% of the time

Trend Vision One vs Cisco SecureX [EOL]

Compared 16% of the time

Cortex XDR by Palo Alto Networks vs Cisco SecureX [EOL]

Compared 13% of the time

Splunk SOAR vs Cisco SecureX [EOL]

Compared 8% of the time

Cisco Secure Network Analytics vs Cisco SecureX [EOL]

Compared 8% of the time

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Cisco Secure Endpoint

July 2024

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Cisco SecureX [EOL]

July 2024

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Also Known As

Cisco AMP for Endpoints

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Overview

Cisco Secure Endpoint is a comprehensive endpoint security solution that natively includes open and extensible extended detection and response (XDR) and advanced endpoint detection and response (EDR) capabilities. Secure Endpoint offers relentless breach protection that enables you to be confident, be bold, and be fearless with one of the industry’s most trusted endpoint security solutions. It protects your hybrid workforce, helps you stay resilient, and secures what’s next with simple, comprehensive endpoint security powered by unique insights from 300,000 security customers and deep visibility from the networking leader.

Cisco Secure Endpoint was formerly known as Cisco AMP for Endpoints.

Reviews from Real Users

Cisco Secure Endpoint stands out among its competitors for a number of reasons. Two major ones are its ability to enable developers to easily secure their endpoints with one single operation using its management console and its advanced alerting techniques.

Tim C., an IT manager at Van Der Meer Consulting, writes, "The solution makes it possible to see a threat once and block it everywhere across all endpoints and the entire security platform. It has the ability to block right down to the file and application level across all devices based on policies, such as, blacklisting and whitelisting of software and applications. This is good. Its strength is the ability to identify threats very quickly, then lock them and the network down and block the threats across the organization and all devices, which is what you want. You don't want to be spending time working out how to block something. You want to block something very quickly, letting that flow through to all the devices and avoiding the same scenario on different operating systems."

Wouter H., a technical team lead network & security at Missing Piece BV, notes, "Any alert that we get is an actionable alert. Immediately, there is information that we can just click through, see the point in time, what happened, what caused it, and what automatic actions were taken. We can then choose to take any manual actions, if we want, or start our investigation. We're no longer looking at digging into information or wading through hundreds of incidents. There's a list which says where the status is assigned, e.g., under investigation or investigation finished. That is all in the console. It has taken away a lot of the administration, which we would normally be doing, and integrated it into the console for us."

Cisco SecureX is an integrated security platform that connects the breadth of Cisco's integrated security portfolio and the customer's infrastructure to create a consistent experience. The solution unifies visibility, enables automation, and strengthens your security across network, endpoints, cloud, and applications. Cisco SecureX is embedded within every Cisco Security product and supports integrations with SIEM and SOAR, so customers will not need to replace any solution or worry about layering on new technology.

Cisco SecureX Features

Cisco SecureX has many valuable key features. Some of the most useful ones include:

Unified overview: Cisco SecureX offers key metrics on transactions and threats for network, endpoints, cloud and applications. In addition, the SecureX interface is integrated into all Cisco Security technologies.

Automation and an increase in operational efficiency: With Cisco SecureX, you gain better automation of workflows for products of the Cisco Security portfolio and third parties, allowing you to focus on other more important tasks. By eliminating manual work (through automatic identification of threats using analytical data of Cisco Talos and other sources), the solution helps your organization save a significant amount of time.

Security strengthening: Cisco SecureX makes it easy to compare analytical data from a set of various sources with the telemetry received from network, endpoints, e-mail, cloud, and third-party products.

Cisco SecureX Benefits

Some of the benefits of using Cisco SecureX include:

Secure every business endeavor with an open, integrated platform that has out-of-the-box interoperability and scales to meet security needs.

Advance your security maturity level using existing resources.

Turn security from a blocker into an enabler. Cisco SecureX allows you to add new security capabilities for the threat landscape.

Maximize your operational efficiency, helping you get the most from your security investments.

Reviews from Real Users

Below are some reviews and helpful feedback written by Cisco SecureX users.

PeerSpot user Wouter H., Technical Team Lead Network & Security at Missing Piece BV, shares several reasons why he thinks the solution is fantastic. In his opinion, “SecureX takes all the separate pieces of security within your company, adds in intelligence from different sites and services on the internet, and makes them work together. If an email is received on a machine and malware is being executed, it can be put into lockdown mode. The fact that you can have a single solution that combines endpoint intelligence with email intelligence, firewalls, and publicly available intelligence is really helpful. Also, SecureX provides us with contextual awareness throughout our security ecosystem. Before SecureX, things that were not possible, or that would take days, now literally take seconds to find out.

Michal S., Infrastructure Engineer at a media company, says, “SecureX provides many measurements and has a really good dashboard. Working with it you are able to see things very clearly and you have every detail on a single display. That saves us money and time.” He also adds, “It brings all our data into a central point. It also shows us many data connections between many of our environments. SecureX gives you really good information about potential risks. You are able to find the source of a risk, a potential risk from a user or a machine.”

Blair A., Technology Director at Shawnee Heights USD #450, explains, "One of the most valuable features is the simplicity of deploying SecureX. It's very easy to do that and then you gain very detailed visibility into everything that's going on in your network and, obviously, at the device level. There's just a wealth of information that you can pull from all of these products that are part of SecureX. You know exactly if you have an issue or not."

Sample Customers

Heritage Bank, Mobile County Schools, NHL University, Thunder Bay Regional, Yokogawa Electric, Sam Houston State University, First Financial Bank

NHS, Rackspace, UNC Pembroke, University of North Carolina at Charlotte, Missing Piece

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