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Partner Ecosystem
Partner Ecosystem
Partner Ecosystem Overview
The enterprise network continues to grow in complexity, with more connected devices and applications to manage
than ever before. This increase in devices and applications has led to an increased lack of visibility into who and
what is connecting to the network as well as increased security concerns, since more devices mean more possible
ways to compromise the network. IT organizations have generally addressed these security concerns by
continually adding more security systems and vendors to their networks.
However, multiple solutions from multiple vendors also produce disconnected repositories of information. All of
these disparate systems generate disparate data that needs to be manually pieced together to accurately identify a
network threat and determine which remediating action should be taken. The Cisco
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Identity Services Engine (ISE)
can help simplify and streamline this process. Cisco ISE collects valuable contextual data from across the network
that can be consolidated and shared across multiple systems and vendors, allowing you to see exactly where the
root cause of a threat is located. By eliminating the manual, time-consuming process of piecing together disparate
data from multiple systems, you can pinpoint network threats more quickly and resolve security incidents before
they cause damage.
Partner platforms can use the identity, device, and policy information that is generated by Cisco ISE to bring a
variety of other useful capabilities to users. The integration of these products with Cisco ISE makes it possible for
these partner solutions to reach into the Cisco network infrastructure and implement network actions on users and
devices. These include quarantining and blocking access and providing inputs to Cisco ISE for network access
policy decisions.
Cisco Platform Exchange Grid and Ecosystem Highlights
Cisco ISE is the market-leading security policy management platform that unifies and automates secure access
control to enforce role-based access to networks and network resources. It delivers superior user and device
visibility and collects a tremendous amount of contextual data from a myriad of sources across the network (for
example, endpoints, users, Active Directory lists, and network sensors). Integrated within Cisco ISE is the Cisco
Platform Exchange Grid (pxGrid). Cisco pxGrid is a robust context-sharing platform that shares this collected
contextual data to external and internal ecosystem partner solutions in order to improve their efficacy and
accelerate these solutions’ capabilities. Partner solutions in the Cisco ISE ecosystem can use this contextual data
accelerate these solutions’ capabilities. Partner solutions in the Cisco ISE ecosystem can use this contextual data
in innovative ways to improve network management and security.