A better way to connect your network
What is Cisco DNA?
The Cisco DNA Center is an effective network controller and management dashboard that enables you to manage your network, maximize your Cisco investment, protect your remote workforce, and cut costs on IT. It actively monitors, analyses, and enhances your network using cutting-edge machine learning (ML) and artificial intelligence (AI).
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What is Cisco Identity Services Engine (Cisco ISE 3.x) and how can you benefit from?
In a zero-trust architecture for the workplace, Cisco Identity Services Engine (ISE) activates intelligence from all levels of the security stack to serve as the policy decision point. No matter the access method, ISE allows an automated method to find, profile, authenticate, and approve trusted endpoints and users connecting to the self-managed network infrastructure. With its exceptional capacity to both integrate intelligence and receive and disseminate context from the network, ISE has maintained market supremacy for more than 10 years. For continuous trusted access and automatic threat containment, ISE incorporates zero-trust policy decision points into the network via integrated intelligence.
Benefits:
Pervasive visibility: Every connection is visible and understood. Having the ability to view and understand every connection to the network is the first step in developing a resilient security posture. Device discovery for network connections is automated by ISE. Teams can use ISE to locate, categorize, and monitor network endpoints to automate policy provisioning before granting access to network resources. IT teams can select between an agent-based or agentless method to acquire the visibility necessary to thoroughly examine the device and guarantee endpoint compliance, giving them the flexibility, they need to strike a balance between business goals and security. Any modifications to an endpoint’s overall state trigger immediate and dynamic policy updates to manage access, assure compliance, lower risk, and contain threats.
Dynamic control: Utilizing network segmentation that is driven by visibility, you can confidently add protection to your network. In order to contain and stop the lateral movement of threats, network segmentation creates zero trust into the network with policy-based access. Organizations can continuously ensure that this degree of protection won’t interfere with business objectives while also reducing the attack surface, limiting the spread of ransomware, and enabling rapid threat containment.
Automated threat containment: Remove threats rather than just blocking them. Through pxGrid and pxGrid Cloud, ISE interacts with Cisco Security products and third-party ecosystem partners to obtain contextual data from on-premises and cloud-native solutions. With the help of this open integration ecosystem, you can automate threat containment, get rid of threats, and shorten mean time to repair by adding an active arm of policy enforcement to your security stack.
Endpoint compliance: A solid, resilient security posture is necessary for business continuity. In order to prevent unsafe, unpatched, and out-of-date devices from endangering the network, ISE continuously checks that device posture complies with your security policy. With a configurable method for obtaining ongoing posture assessments for endpoints connecting to your managed infrastructure, ISE 3.x improves organizational posture. Customers may now define and implement dynamic policy, obtain ongoing trusted access, and manage organizational risk without interfering with business goals thanks to an infinite number of posture checks. This ensures business resilience.
Secure access: Increases value by making it easier to provision devices and policies. ISE controls certificates and mobile policy compliance, enables self-registration, automates device configuration, and monitors device configuration. IT administrators may supply additional resources with confidence and speed while maintaining security with the help of granular visibility and controls.
With ISE 3.0, you get dynamic visibility across all of your devices, cloud compatibility, an easy-to-use UI, and a solid support network. To learn more about ISE 3.0, click here