Cisco Identity Services Engine (ISE)
Cisco Identity Services Engine (ISE) is the one-stop solution to pipeline all the security policy management needs along with reducing the overall operating costs. With ISE, one can check on different users and devices controlling access across VPN, wireless and wired connections to the corporate network.
Cisco ISE enables you to bring about highly secure network access to devices and users. It allows visibility into what is happening within your network like which applications are installed and running, who is connected, and much more. ISE also shares important contextual information like device and user identities, vulnerabilities, and threats, with integrated solutions from Cisco technology partners you can identify, limit and amend threats faster.
Cisco ISE – one of the crucial elements in zero-trust security for the workplace. When we speak on zero-trust strategy one of the key aspects is securing everyone and everything that is connected to and within the workplace.
Implementing Cisco ISE powered by Syndrome brings along an automated and dynamic measure for policy enforcement which simplifies the delivery of extremely secure network access control. Software-defined access along with automating the network segmentation within the information technology (IT) and operational technology (OT) environments.
Why choose ISE for secure access?
- Acquire visibility: Be aware of who, what, where, and how different endpoints and devices are connected to within your network. Dive deep into every device for limiting risk and have thorough compliance checks, with or without an agent.
- Disable threats by extending zero trust: By enabling software-defined network segmentation with ISE the attack surface is narrowed which limits the expansion of ransomware thereby enabling rapid threat containment.
- Expedite value of on-going solutions: ISE easily integrates with Cisco and other third-party solutions to provide an additional measure of protection for the existing security solutions which helps increase the ROI.
- Advance steps to secure access: With ISE within your network it gives a foundation for policy control within the DNAC and becomes the backbone for SD-Access.
Advantages to Customer after Deployment:
Cisco ISE provides a comprehensive offer to network access security. Some of the advantages one gets after ISE is deployed are:
1. Extremely secure business and context-based access depending on your company policies:
- ISE works with network devices for generating an all-around identity with varied attributes like time, location, user, vulnerability, threat, and access type. This generated identity can be then utilized to impose a highly secure access policy that matches the identity’s business role.
- With ISE, IT administrators can imply appropriate controls on who, when, what, where and how different endpoints are allowed on the network.
- Channeled network visibility via a flexible, simple, and highly usable interface.
- ISE has a mechanism of storing a detailed history of the attributes of all the endpoints which are connected to the network along with its users like employees, guests, and/or contractors present on the network. This history is stored all the way down to an endpoint’s application details and firewall status.
2. Extensive policy enforcement based on your ever-changing business needs:
- Enable policy enforcements that define flexible and easy rules based on company requirements. This is controlled from a central location which is distributed across the entire network and security infrastructure.
- A policy can be defined by IT administrators to distinguish guests from registered users. Through ISE, users and endpoints can be allowed access based on policy and their roles irrespective of their location.
- Cisco TrustSec Security Group Tags (SGT) enables companies to establish access control on business rules and not IP addresses or network hierarchy. These SGTs provide endpoints and users access on a least privilege policy which is constantly maintained as resources move across domains.
- Managing router, switch, and firewall rules have become easier and has been shown to reduce IT operations by a big 80% along with increasing the time to implement modifications by 98%.
3. Vigorous guest experience giving multiple levels of access within your network:
Guest access can be given through self-service registered access, coffee-shop style hotspot access, or sponsored access. ISE enables the ability to immensely customize different guest portals through an on-box or cloud-delivered portal editor which gives dynamic visual tools. With this one can see real-time previews of the portal screen and the experience a guest will have by connecting to the network.
4. Self-service device onboarding for guests policies or companies’ Bring-Your-Own-Device (BYOD):
Based on policies defined by IT administrators users can manage their devices accordingly.
The IT staff will have automated device profiling, provisioning, and posturing to comply with security policies. On the other hand, employees can easily get their devices onto the network without any intervention from the IT department.
