ISE
Expanding Security Everywhere and Creating New Opportunities for Partners
As you remember, we launched Security Everywhere last June during Cisco Live, San Diego. Since that time we have received tremendous response from our mutual customers and you, our partners. To further decrease the risk of security threats, on November 3rd, we announced additional investments and e…
Going Beyond Wireless: Mobility at Cisco Live San Diego
Hello from sunny San Diego! We are in full swing here at Cisco Live US with 25,000 attendees from our Cisco community of customers and partners, showcasing how we are enabling the digital economy today and well into the future. Chances are that if you know anything about Cisco, you know we’re the n…
Hosted Identity Services: Scaling Security in the Age of Mobility
The rapid expansion of connected devices is a double-edged sword for businesses. On one hand, mobility, cloud, and BYOD innovations enable unprecedented flexibility, collaboration, and ease of access for employees. Fifty percent of employers will adopt BYOD policies by 2017, and 90 percent of Americ…
The Network as a Security Sensor and Enforcer
The Digital Economy and the Internet of Everything means everything is now connected. Digitization is fundamentally transforming how we conduct business. It creates new opportunities to develop services and engage with employees, partners, and customers. It’s important to understand that digitizatio…
ISE Ecosystem Expands to Drive Deeper Visibility and Control with Cisco Identity Services Engine
In one of my previous posts, I noted how Network Access Control (NAC) platforms have started evolving into more visibility-focused and context-aware platforms in the face of major business trends such as enterprise mobility, the migration of resources to the cloud, and the ubiquitous Internet of Eve…
Reducing the Attack Surface: Takeaways from the 2015 Annual Security Report
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 defe…
More Than Just a Pretty Dashboard – Cisco ISE and Splunk Turn Event Data Analysis into Action
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 a…
A Dynamic Integration: FireSIGHT and ISE
With the security landscape constantly evolving and attackers innovating at the rapid pace, it is important that we keep up with attackers. For this reason we have based our security on imperatives like being visibility-driven and platform-based. Organizations need total visibility of their environ…
ISE and IOE
At a recent offsite, the Identity Services Engine (ISE) project team, and our InfoSec and Mobility teams spoke at length about how we will tackle the challenge of getting all Internet of Everything (IoE) devices securely on the network. Cisco IT has an aggressive schedule for the deployment of ISE c…