TrustRadius Insights for Cisco Software-Defined Access (SD-Access) are summaries of user sentiment data from TrustRadius reviews and, when necessary, third party data sources.
Pros
Security Features Appreciated: Users have praised the security feature sets, such as SGT tagging and compliance with security standards, for enhancing network security and governance. These features have helped in ensuring a robust defense against potential threats and vulnerabilities.
Valuable Monitoring Capabilities: Reviewers find the ISE monitoring and auditing capabilities valuable for enhancing network visibility by providing detailed insights into network activities. The ability to track and analyze network traffic has been instrumental in identifying issues promptly and maintaining smooth operations.
Efficient Automation Features: Customers have highlighted the automation features of the product, particularly DNA automation for daily tasks and telemetry functions. This automation not only saves time but also streamlines processes, allowing teams to focus on strategic initiatives while routine tasks are efficiently handled by the system.
We use it for controlling all our access to our campus networks and allowing user flexibility, all the resources and logging into the company's intranet and other services that they need internally.
Pros
It does well by cementing their users with a lot of the security feature sets, such as assist SGT tagging and working well with our security compliance and guard for governance. Using the ISE monitoring and auditing,
Cons
The user interfaces has a lot of needs for improvement, such as making it a bit more usable and accessible, as well as being more flexible in allowing us to consume the APIs that the products offers.
Likelihood to Recommend
It's well suited in our corporate offices, where all our business users resides and where we can control all their accesses. What doesn't really fit well is when we have our branch fronts, where all the software domain access features aren't utilized to its fullest, due to the fact that customers and users don't really need to have all the security features that SDA provides.
VU
Verified User
Engineer in Information Technology (Banking company, 11-50 employees)