Cisco Identity Services Engine (ISE) vs. Cisco Secure Firewall

Cisco Identity Services Engine (ISE)

192 Reviews and Ratings

Cisco Secure Firewall

136 Reviews and Ratings

Overview
Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
Cisco Identity Services Engine (ISE)	Score8.6 out of 10	N/A	The Cisco Identity Services Engine (ISE) offers a network-based approach for adaptable, trusted access everywhere, based on context. It gives the user intelligent, integrated protection through intent-based policy and compliance solutions.	N/A
Cisco Secure Firewall	Score8 out of 10	N/A	Cisco Secure Firewall delivers comprehensive threat protection for modern, distributed networks. Built to support hybrid workforces and multicloud environments, it enables Zero Trust access, application visibility, and secure remote connectivity. With integration across the Cisco Secure portfolio, including SecureX and Talos threat intelligence, the firewall powers organizations to detect and stop more sophisticated threats. Centralized management simplifies policy enforcement, orchestration,…	N/A

Pricing

Cisco Identity Services Engine (ISE)

Cisco Secure Firewall

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Pricing Offerings
Cisco Identity Services Engine (ISE)	Cisco Secure Firewall
Free Trial
No	Yes
Free/Freemium Version
No	No
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
No	No

No setup fee

No setup fee

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Community Pulse
Key User Insights
	Cisco Identity Services Engine (ISE)	Cisco Secure Firewall
Considered Both Products	Cisco Verified User Chose Cisco Identity Services Engine (ISE) Works and integrates really well with the secure firewall for RAVPN user authentication Incentivized Helpful? Muhammad Awais Afzal Sr ICT Engineer in Engineering at ICAD (Information Technology & Services, 1001-5000 employees) Chose Cisco Identity Services Engine (ISE) Cisco ISE Leads in Certain Areas of integration with Cisco infrastructure (switches, firewalls, routers).Strong support for Zero Trust and regulatory compliance segmentation & dynamic access Incentivized Helpful?	Cisco Michal Navorka Architect in Information Technology at Reconext (Electrical & Electronic Manufacturing, 5001-10,000 employees) Chose Cisco Secure Firewall Well FWs are branch security things and major things so really not much similar device at Cisco portfolio. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Cisco Secure Firewall Cisco Secure Firewall is not so complicated to configure, especially as a Firewall manager where your main business is to create new rules or create site to site tunnels and so on. You can easily do this on the Cisco Secure Firewall, with CheckPoint this was a bit more … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Cisco Secure Firewall Integration with ISE to deploy identity based policy Incentivized Helpful? Edwin Sandys Manager Enterprise Systems & Networks Infrastructure in Information Technology at The University of the South Pacific (Higher Education, 1001-5000 employees) Chose Cisco Secure Firewall I believe Cisco firewalls are definitely on par with Palo Alto but the latest AI feature releasing in 2024 will certainly surpass all expectations. Fortinet is going to struggle after this and I can say that with certainty given we have removed all our FortiGate firewalls. Incentivized Helpful? Andreas Foerby Systems Engineer in Information Technology at Wingmen Solutions (Information Technology & Services, 51-200 employees) Chose Cisco Secure Firewall Cisco Secure Firewall aka Firepower has a more visibility than the ASA, specially with use of FMC. The Secure Firewall also adds a lot of security features, with IPS, IDS, AVC, Security Intelligence, Identity Mapping and so on. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Cisco Secure Firewall Cisco FTD poc was more successful on our case Incentivized Helpful?
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	Delivers good value for the price
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	Happy with the feature set
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	Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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Features

Cisco Identity Services Engine (ISE)

Cisco Secure Firewall

Comparison of Firewall features of Cisco Identity Services Engine (ISE) and Cisco Secure Firewall
Feature	Cisco Identity Services Engine (ISE) - Ratings	Cisco Secure Firewall 7.9 79 Ratings
Identification Technologies	00 Ratings	8.168 Ratings
Visualization Tools	00 Ratings	7.072 Ratings
Content Inspection	00 Ratings	8.371 Ratings
Policy-based Controls	00 Ratings	8.876 Ratings
Active Directory and LDAP	00 Ratings	8.865 Ratings
Firewall Management Console	00 Ratings	8.274 Ratings
Reporting and Logging	00 Ratings	7.275 Ratings
VPN	00 Ratings	7.665 Ratings
High Availability	00 Ratings	8.571 Ratings
Stateful Inspection	00 Ratings	7.870 Ratings
Proxy Server	00 Ratings	6.741 Ratings

User Ratings
	Cisco Identity Services Engine (ISE)	Cisco Secure Firewall
Likelihood to Recommend	8.6 (89 ratings)	8.1 (84 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew	9.0 (2 ratings)	7.2 (2 ratings)
Usability	7.0 (3 ratings)	9.0 (2 ratings)
Availability	8.9 (2 ratings)	9.1 (2 ratings)
Performance	9.0 (1 ratings)	5.0 (1 ratings)
Support Rating	7.0 (6 ratings)	7.6 (35 ratings)
Implementation Rating	8.9 (2 ratings)	8.0 (1 ratings)
Configurability	8.0 (1 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
Contract Terms and Pricing Model	7.0 (1 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
Ease of integration	7.0 (2 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
Product Scalability	8.0 (1 ratings)	5.0 (1 ratings)
Vendor post-sale	10.0 (1 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
Vendor pre-sale	9.0 (1 ratings)	- (0 ratings)