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Cisco Secure Access

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15 Reviews and Ratings

What is Cisco Secure Access?

A cloud-delivered security service edge (SSE) solution, grounded in zero trust, designed to give users an exceptional user experience and protected access from any device to anywhere.

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Who Buys & Uses Cisco Secure Access

Cisco Secure Access Reviews

What users are saying about Cisco Secure Access.
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Pros

  • Robust security capabilities for threat prevention
  • Effective in preventing cyber threats and data breaches for SaaS and internet access
  • Ease of initial setup and user experience

Cons

  • Dissatisfaction with technical support quality due to outsourced assistance
  • Challenges with implementation and integration requiring strong technical knowledge
  • Inadequate documentation for troubleshooting

Cisco Secure Access.

Incentivized
Verified User
Manager in Information Technology (501-1000 employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use this as the primary SWG. This provides for DNS Category blocks, Application Control Blocks, and more granular web blocking. We also use this for DLP, and we can use user groups to allow or block access to the relevant items that we require.

Pros

  • SWG
  • Application Control.
  • Granular control based on users or groups.

Cons

  • Easier management of policies.
  • More detailed and accurate reporting.
  • Easier identification and categorisation of applications.
  • Improved decryption handling and management of WAFs blocking access.

Return on Investment

  • Prevent access to malicious content, which has proven to be useful.
  • We have reduced appliance count and maintenance as this is a fully cloud based solution.
  • Lightweight agent that doesn't consume too many resources from the client machines.
  • ability to make changes and have them deployed to agents quickly.

Alternatives Considered

Fortinet FortiGate

Other Software Used

iManage Work, Aderant Expert Sierra, CrowdStrike Falcon Complete Next-Gen MDR

Powerful cybersecurity solution

Incentivized
Pratik Tarmale
Network Engineer in Information Technology at Origin Logistics Pvt Ltd. (51-200 employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use Cisco Secure Access to enable our employees to access SaaS applications, and the internet securely. It offers you various security capabilities such as ZTNA, FWaaS, VPNaaS, DNS security, Data loss protection, Advanced malware protection, remote browser isolation, single management & reporting console, and Digital experience monitoring in a single comprehensive solution.

Pros

  • It offers various security capabilities, including ZTNA, FWaaS, VPNaaS, DNS Security, Data loss prevention, advanced malware protection, etc., all in a single comprehensive solution.
  • It enables your employees to access SaaS applications and internet securely
  • By isolating sensitive applications and data into smaller segments, it reduces potential damage from a security breach.

Cons

  • Costly solution, particular for small businesses
  • Configuring Cisco Secure Access is quite difficult if you are not familiar with Cisco Products
  • Security notifications sometimes takes longer than expected

Return on Investment

  • It helped us minimize potential damage from a security breach by isolating sensitive applications and data into smaller segments
  • It offered us seamless and secure access to SaaS applications and the internet
  • It provides us a unified console for managing all security components from one place.

Alternatives Considered

FortiSASE

Other Software Used

JioMeet, SAP Ariba, Cisco AnyConnect

Secure and reliable cloud-based security platform

Incentivized
Manoj Patil
IT officer in Information Technology at Origin Logistics Pvt Ltd (51-200 employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We are using Cisco Secure Access in our organization to provide our employees secure access to SaaS applications and the internet. It is a cloud-based security platform that offer us many features like a Secure Web Gateway, Zero Trust Network Access, Firewall as a service, VPN as a service, etc. in one solution.

Pros

  • It helps you to safeguard your connection while accessing SaaS applications and the internet.
  • It protects you from cyber threats
  • It protects you from data breaches

Cons

  • Pricing
  • You need strong technical knowledge to integrate it
  • You may need external support to implement it effectively

Return on Investment

  • It ensured us secure access to SaaS applications and the internet
  • It helped us to safeguard our users from cyber threats while accessing cloud applications and the internet.
  • It is protecting us from data breaches.

Alternatives Considered

FortiSASE

Other Software Used

TeamViewer, JioMeet, HROne HRMS Software

Cisco Secure Access - Almost there.

Incentivized
Jim Wise
solution architect in Professional Services at Dimensional Energy (11-50 employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Cisco Secure Access and private access

Pros

  • Ease of setup
  • Client install
  • Meraki integration

Cons

  • Speed to resources based on hub sites

Return on Investment

  • Improved security is a positive
  • Productivity lowered with latency to resources

Alternatives Considered

Aruba Software Defined WAN (SD-WAN) and Aruba EdgeConnect

Cisco Secure Access Review

Incentivized
Verified User
Engineer in Information Technology (10,001+ employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

It's part of the proof of concept. We will use it as the network access control in our branches, campus networks and integrated with Catalyst Center.

Pros

  • I would say securing the local area network from unwanted endpoints that would like to access the corporate network. I would say that's the main feature and reason why we will implement that.

Cons

  • Tech service, which is a technical assistance cases. I am not very happy with it with the level of support we're getting when we open attack case. The product is a bit buggy. I think when the developers release the version, it's not well tested, but overall we're okay with the product and we're happy to use it.

Return on Investment

  • I would say very positive. So far the account and the company is very happy with logs and analysis that we have provided since we have implemented the product. They see real facts and real data. What do we have in the network and what shouldn't be there.

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