ISE

October 15, 2013

EDUCATION

Robot Soccer? Staying Connected at Bowdoin College

As our team has prepared for Educause 2013 this week, we have been talking a lot about technology in higher education and how it’s impacting colleges, universities, students and staff. Of course, robot soccer was not the first thing that came to mind, but it’s a great example of how different techno…

October 14, 2013

SECURITY

A Financial Service Organization Speaks Out on Secure Access

Are your finances secure with your financial institution? Vystar Credit Union in Florida, USA speaks out on one of their recent efforts to ensure highly secure access at their institution. With the pressures of compliance and the need to protect their institution’s network and assets, Vystar deploys…

September 11, 2013

SECURITY

More Effective Threat Visibility Using Identity and Device-Type Context

Following my previous blog post about identity and device aware IT platforms making IT operations easier and more effective, I wanted to delve a little deeper into a specific element of the IT infrastructure: Security Event & Information Management (SIEM) and Threat Defense (TD) systems.…

September 3, 2013

NETWORKING

Register to Learn About Cisco’s Policy Enforcement Solution

In his blog last week, Daryl Coon announced how there’s going to be a webinar this Thursday talking about Cisco’s leading One Policy solution driver, the Identity Services Engine (ISE) and its newest enhancements—now available with its 1.2 release. During this free event, you will learn…

August 29, 2013

NETWORKING

Cisco’s Policy Enforcement Solution Delivers

Whether you need to support BYOD work practices, or provide more secure access to your data center resources, the Cisco Identity Services Engine (ISE) can help. With this all-in-one enterprise policy control platform, you can reliably enforce compliance, enhance infrastructure security, and simplify…

July 30, 2013

SECURITY

How Secure is Your Secure Access?

In June, I attended the Gartner Security Summit in Washington, D.C. where I was asked by quite a few security executives, “My network folks just bought ISE, but what is ISE and what type of security does it provide?”  Fast forward to July, and I wish I had this SANS review on ISE to offer a month ea…

July 6, 2013

DATA CENTER

Securing Access to the Network and Beyond

Often when I think about what mobile means, I picture sales people out in the field, inspectors on bridges, repair men high atop utility poles. But in reality, we are all mobile a lot closer to home. I’m mobile when I check email from my backyard. I’m even mobile when I’m in the office, accessing th…

May 29, 2013

SECURITY

Seven Things to Complete Before Deploying Cisco Identity Services Engine

Connected devices are spreading like kudzu on the Carolina roadside. Cisco Identity Services Engine (ISE) is a great way to manage the devices on your network and with implementing some best practices, I can say you will save time. Below are 7 ideas that will help: 1. Find an Executive Sponsor. Secu…

May 12, 2013

NETWORKING

Have You Registered for Centralize Policy, Control and Enforcement May 15th?

Activate the IT Transformation with Unified Access: Part 4 –  Centralized Policy, Control, and Enforcement  Wednesday, May 15, 2013  10am-11am PDT     |       Register Now Don’t miss the next in line of our five-part Unified Access Webinar Series  on May 15th to hear how organizations in…