Cisco Identity Services Engine (ISE)

Cisco Identity Services Engine is an integral part of securing wireless and wired networks. I use Cisco Identity Services Engine primarily as a partner/consultant to secure K12 and SLED customers. These customers almost always have a universal need to tighten security for their corporate devices to verify that no one unauthorized can connect. The guest redirection feature is really useful and easy to setup, especially if the wireless environement is already a 9800 or meraki WLC. The beauty of Cisco Identity Services Engine is it really is a Swiss Army knife. Depending on the business need, you select the use case and work center and follow the flow of configuration. It may seem intimidating at first but there is really good documentation and community resources for all types of scenarios and networks. Cisco Identity Services Engine can be rolled out in phases depending on the comfort level of the implementation team, making it a lot more flexible than something like a firewall that requires tearing out the old and putting a new device in. Overall, I think Cisco Identity Services Engine is a flagship NAC solution and is a no brainer as the next step in securing any wireless and wired network.

• Secured access for student and staff devices
• Provided a reliable means of guest redirection
• Way to implement least privilege with authorization policies that are appropriate for the user accessing the resource

Cisco ISE creates a unified security ecosystem. We used across departments to enforce consistent access policies.

We are also managing guest WIFI using Cisco ISE. It provides customizable portals. Keeping guest traffic isolated from internal resources.

We are also using it for profiling & posturing of network devices

• Operational efficiency, and security resilience
• IT cost savings via automation 30%
• Downtime reduction(Network segmentation and threat containment reduce downtime by 30, 50%)

FortiNAC

Cisco Catalyst Center, Cisco Industrial Wireless Access Points, Cisco Secure Firewall

We use Cisco Identity Services Engine for authentication for all our endpoints and network devices, we also use it for guest wireless connectivity. Currently, the product doesn't face any problems, but we are looking into integrating it with the Catalyst Center. We also are aware that our appliances are about to end of life on 2026 and we need to look for what to do if get them virtual or get them physical. I would like some advice.

• Cisco Identity Services Engine has saved us money as our environment is more secure
• Saves us money as we don't need third party to take care of our security

Cisco Catalyst Center

Cisco Catalyst Center, Cisco Firepower 1000 Series, Cisco Catalyst 9800 Series Wireless Controllers

We use it for 802.1x to secure switch ports. We also use them for Meraki Access Point connections. The goal is to stop non employee devices from being plugged into the network. Increase the security to protect wired and wireless connections to the company network and reject random devices from the network.

• Helps increase security

Aruba ClearPass

My company uses Cisco Identity Services Engine (ISE) for identity verification and device security/authentication

• Cisco Identity Services Engine (ISE) has really helped with our access control solution. We are now able to do some segmentation on the network using Cisco Identity Services Engine (ISE) for our wireless enviroment

Cisco ThousandEyes, Cisco Firepower 4100 Series, Cisco 1000 Series Aggregation Services Routers (ASR 1000)