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Cisco Secure Access

Score9.2 out of 10

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.

Categories & Use Cases

Powerful cybersecurity solution

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

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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

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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

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Pros

  • Hybrid workforce
  • Consistency
  • SSE
  • Security
  • Always on protection

Cons

  • Integration with Canvas AI
  • Easy integration with 3rd party firewalls
  • Help customers to understand why they need it even though they already have firewalls

Return on Investment

  • Less data center complexity
  • Easily support remote workforce
  • Enable remote work without compromising security

Alternatives Considered

Palo Alto Networks Prisma Access

Other Software Used

Netskope Data Loss Prevention

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Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Every day, in order to connect to the company's domain from remote locations across the country (with some inernational use)

Pros

  • Ease of use
  • Ease of support/troubleshooting
  • Customer service response times when a vendor ticket becomes necessary

Cons

  • More support documentation
  • Less outsourcing of customer support that reads from scripts without understanding them

Alternatives Considered

Cisco AnyConnect

Other Software Used

Webex App