Chapter 6. Sharing the Context

Because Cisco Identify Services Engine (ISE) is positioned to know exactly who and what is on the network at any given time, as well as assign different levels of access and context assignments with security group tags, it is the perfect security tool to be at the center of a security ecosystem.

There are so many tools that may exist within your “security toolbox”: firewalls, next-generation firewalls (NGFWs), intrusion prevention systems (IPSs), NG-IPSs, security information and event management (SIEM) systems, secure web gateways, threat defense tools, vulnerability assessment scanners, mobile device managers, and more. Most of these tools do not know the identity of the user, only the identity of the endpoint. ...

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