Cisco pxGrid Cloud is a Cisco cloud offering designed to facilitate secure sharing of contextual information between Cisco Identity Services Engine (ISE) and cloud-based solutions. It provides a unified framework that ensures seamless data exchange between Cisco ISE and various cloud-based applications, enhancing integration and efficiency.

This solution is secure and customizable, allowing you to control the flow of information based on your specific needs. With Cisco pxGrid Cloud, you can choose to share only the data you want while consuming only the contextual information that is most relevant to your application, ensuring security and relevance.

Cisco ISE release 3.1 patch 3 and later releases support Cisco pxGrid Cloud. Cisco and its partners and customers can develop pxGrid Cloud-based applications and register them with the pxGrid Cloud offer. These applications can use External RESTful Services (ERS), Cisco pxGrid, and OpenAPIs to exchange information with Cisco ISE.

Cisco pxGrid Cloud offers these benefits:

• Deployment is plug-and-play, eliminating the need for infrastructure changes.

• Cisco ISE acts as the single source of truth for endpoint identity, providing consistent context exchange with cloud partners.

• Deeper security analysis is enabled through integrations with SaaS-based applications, leveraging real-time context from Cisco ISE.

• Threat containment is achieved by isolating endpoints from the network, using actions initiated by security SaaS solutions.

You can use Cisco Catalyst Cloud Portal to integrate data seamlessly between Cisco ISE and cloud-based applications with pxGrid Cloud. Cisco ISE is an identity service and Cisco pxGrid Cloud provides a mechanism for sharing context. It relies on Cisco Catalyst Cloud Portal to onboard and register applications without depending on other on-premises infrastructure.

You must log in to Cisco Catalyst Cloud Portal to facilitate integration with cloud-based applications and securely exchange identity, security, and policy data between Cisco ISE and other cloud-based services through pxGrid Cloud.

Cisco Catalyst Cloud Portal acts as a secure app store, providing a platform for Cisco ISE and other cloud-based applications to publish, subscribe, and share data with Cisco ISE while maintaining the integrity of your network. It aids Cisco ISE in delivering consistent context exchange about users, endpoints, sessions, and more with SaaS-based products that are a part of the Cisco ISE partner ecosystem.

Seamless data integration between Cisco ISE and cloud-based applications through Cisco pxGrid Cloud relies on the Cisco Catalyst Cloud Portal.

These are some common terms used in the Cisco pxGrid Cloud solution and their meanings within the Cisco pxGrid Cloud environment.

• App: Create and register applications based on requirements. For example, you can create an app to retrieve session and endpoint data from Cisco ISE.

  Applications with a cloud offering can be onboarded to Cisco pxGrid Cloud. After an application is onboarded, you can share data between your Cisco ISE deployment and the application.

• Offer: A set of capabilities packaged together and offered as a solution.

• Subscription: An instance of an offer consumed by a tenant.