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Available soon in 11 languages: The Cisco Identity Services Engine´s portal pages will be available as part of ISE 1.1 in English, French, Italian, German, Spanish, Korean, Japanese, Chinese (simplified and traditional), Brazilian Portuguese, and Russian.

Govern Your Network with Central Policy Enforcement

Provision and deliver cross-domain application and network services more securely and reliably with Cisco Identity Services Engine (ISE) in all environments-wired, wireless, and VPN. This policy-based service-enablement platform helps ensure corporate and regulatory compliance.

Enhance infrastructure security and simplify enterprise service operations. Gather real-time contextual information from the network, users, and devices, and make proactive governance decisions by enforcing policy across the network infrastructure.

Cisco Identity Services Engine offers the following benefits.

  • Security: Get visibility and control over all users and devices on your network.
  • Compliance: Create consistent policy across the infrastructure for corporate governance.
  • Efficiency: Increase IT staff productivity by automating labor-intensive tasks and simplifying service delivery.

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Product Highlights

  • Context-aware enforcement: Gathers information from users, devices, infrastructure, and network services to enable organizations to enforce contextual-based business policies across the network.
  • Business-relevant policies: Create and enforce consistent policy from the head office to the branch office.
  • Systemwide visibility: Let IT see who and what is on the network for advanced discovery and troubleshooting.
  • Flexible architecture: Combine authentication, authorization, and accounting (AAA), posture, profiling, and guest management.

ISE Deployment

The Cisco Identity Services Engine (ISE) is a policy component of the Cisco TrustSec solution. You can deploy Cisco ISE as an appliance or virtual machine to enforce security policy on all devices that attempt to gain access to network infrastructure. Integrated with the Cisco Prime Network Control System (NCS), Cisco ISE helps you manage all devices more securely. In wireless deployments, it can help address the challenges of a bring-your-own-device (BYOD) environment.

ISE Deployment Diagram
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As part of the Cisco TrustSec solution and Cisco's SecureX architecture for Borderless Networks, the Cisco Identity Service Engine provides a centralized policy engine for business relevant policy definition and enforcement.

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