CCNP Security Identity Management SISE 300-715 Official Cert Guide

Chapter 14

Profiling

This chapter covers the following topics:

• Enable the profiling services

• Network probes

• IOS Device Sensor

• Feed Service

• Profiling policy rules

• Utilize profile assignment in authorization policies

• Verify profiling operation

There is often confusion about the difference between profiling and posture, and the terms tend to get mixed up. In Chapter 5, “Introduction to Advanced Concepts,” you were exposed to both technologies. Profiling is the technology used to determine what a device appears to be from an external perspective, whereas posture is the technology used to perform an internal examination of a system and report the facts. Posture is covered in Chapter 18, “Posture Assessment.”

Profiling is used to build a database ...