Cisco Identity Services Engine (ISE)
Reducing the Attack Surface: Takeaways from the 2015 Annual Security Report
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As the Cisco 2015 Annual Security Report shows, current security approaches aren’t sufficient. Attackers are shifting methods and becoming more sophisticated in their approaches, users are unwittingly complicit enablers, and defenders struggle to keep up with all of these things. It is time for defenders to take a different approach to security that not only […]
More Than Just a Pretty Dashboard – Cisco ISE and Splunk Turn Event Data Analysis into Action
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Previous blogs in this series, both by Splunk and Cisco, detail how Cisco Identity Services Engine (ISE) can be used to drive enhanced event visibility in Splunk. Splunk is a machine data platform that allows you to search, report, alert, and visualize any data that it ingests. Cisco ISE brings an added dimension to analyzing […]
Why Isn’t It Easier to Customize Enterprise Mobility and Guest Portals?
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Enterprises use Cisco ISE for securely granting access to visitors and on-boarding employee-owned devices over Wi-Fi. Portals for users to gain access are becoming more advanced, and the next step is for most customers to create a richer customized experience to: Promote your brand to guests
Using Cisco ISE Data to Drive Enhanced Event Visibility in Splunk
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Cisco Identity Services Engine (ISE) is commonly associated with use as a network access policy, BYOD and AAA platform. But to do its job in network policy, ISE collects a great breadth of telemetry about network users and devices. Whether a device is trying to access the network or is already connected, ISE knows specifics […]
Cisco ISE 1.3: Welcomed Improvements
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I’ve finally had a chance to stop and smell the roses. The roses being Cisco ISE 1.3 that is. It’s been a much anticipated update to Cisco’s core TrustSec component and there are a number of improvements, many dealing with Guest users. So what has Cisco done to improve? Let’s look at 5 areas related […]
Converged Access Drives Cisco Live Cancun
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Cisco Live Cancun took place in the beautiful Moon Palace Golf & Spa Resort from November 3rd – 6th 2014. The event provided a great opportunity for customers and partners to discuss Cisco’s Products and Solution’s vision. And what better way to showcase these latest innovative solutions than with running the event itself with its […]
Extending control and advanced threat protection for web security
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Today the web is a favorite vector for threat actors to launch their attacks. According to the Cisco 2014 Midyear Security Report, More than 90 percent of customer networks observed in the first half of 2014 were identified as having traffic going to websites that host malware. More recently, Talos uncovered a massive malvertising network known […]
New White Paper from Enterprise Strategy Group on the Evolution of and Need for Secure Network Access
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Mention Network Access Control (NAC) to some security or network operations engineers, and they just might grimace. Why? Most people still associate NAC with a set of technologies that were complicated to deploy and implement effectively. Today, however, those nightmare assumptions are far removed from the reality. In this newly released white paper, Jon Oltsik, […]
Cisco Identity Services Engine (ISE) 1.3 and Cisco AnyConnect 4.0 Are Now Available!
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Cisco customers, partners, and field have been eagerly awaiting the release of the latest version of the Identity Services Engine and the AnyConnect Secure Mobility Client. Well, the wait is now over! After another highly successful limited availability program, Cisco ISE 1.3 and Cisco AnyConnect 4.0 are now available for full orderability as of Friday, […]