However, numerous solutions from multiple vendors also generate disconnected sources of data. All these dissimilar systems produce incongruent information that needs to be manually pieced together to precisely locate a network threat and define which remediating step should be taken.

Cisco ISE can help in streamlining this process. ISE gathers valuable circumstantial information from across the network. This information can then be combined and shared across manifold systems and vendors by the Cisco Platform Exchange Grid (pxGrid). You can get answers quicker. And you can utilize the Cisco ISE Rapid Threat Containment feature to halt security threats by using the network as an enforcer.

In addition, ISE allows Security Technical Alliance partner technologies to utilize Structured Threat Information Expression (STIX) threat scores and the Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) to modify or diminish the access status founded on a threat score. You can assign access to devices that have a lower risk score while rejecting access to devices with a high risk score.

Cisco pxGrid

Cisco pxGrid is an open, scalable, and IETF standards-powered information-sharing and data-control platform. It enables numerous security products to work in tandem. Security operations can systematize to get answers quickly and control threats faster.

How pxGrid Increases Your Protection

Easier integration: You can use one API for open, automated data sharing and control among more than 50 security products. Cisco pxGrid helps in enabling a complete ecology of different IETF standards-compliant technologies to work in tandem. You need to manage and sustain only a singular interface as a substitute of a group of unrelated APIs.

Immediate visibility: Seeing all circumstantial and pertinent data on a single screen improves time and staff efficiencies. Tailor the methods in which you share and view security information. See your security position more visibly and succinctly, including challenging events on your network. Improve your staff efficiency.

Faster investigations: Perform a complete analysis on one system for faster answers. Security intelligence is able to be shared automatically between almost any pxGrid-integrated technologies. You don’t need to perform long investigations. Your security operations can come up with solutions.

Even faster responses: Stop threats immediately using the network as an enforcer. Cisco pxGrid enables any unified and proficient technology on a pxGrid instance to educate ISE to contain a threat by using the network as an enforcer so that any attack anywhere in the network can be instantly halted.

For more details on the Cisco Identity Services Engine, go to http://cisco.com/go/ise or contact our Cisco Licensing Specialists here.