With the security landscape constantly evolving and attackers innovating at the rapid pace, it is important that we keep up with attackers.  For this reason we have based our security on imperatives like being visibility-driven and platform-based.

Organizations need total visibility of their environments for full contextual awareness, ultimately enabling better network protection, since we can’t protect what we can’t see.  The imperative of being platform-based is also important for more simplified architectures with fewer security devices that smoothly integrate with existing IT environments, capable of sharing deep contextual data.

These imperatives working in concert mean defenders can now move towards security systems that see everything and share context and intelligence for correlation to dynamically apply controls in real-time based on what is seen and learned.

These imperatives are also central to the Identity Services Engine (ISE) and its partner ecosystem powered by Platform Exchange Grid (pxGrid) to share contextual information between platforms for better visibility, mobile device compliance, cyber threat defense, threat remediation, network troubleshooting and IoT security.

The continued integration of Cisco and Sourcefire continues to show the commitment to an evolving and powerful security portfolio, based on these imperatives.  Today we unveil another integration: Cisco ISE with FireSIGHT Management Center using pxGrid.

FireSIGHT Management Center is the management console for Cisco ASA with FirePOWER Services and Cisco FirePOWER appliances providing total, real-time network visibility and security automation.  Cisco ISE is our security policy management platform unifying and automating secure access control to enforce role-based access to networks and network resources.

Now, corporate environments with networks that contain both FireSIGHT and ISE can use them together for threat detection and quarantine.

Cisco ISE leverages pxGrid technology to integrate with FireSIGHT so it can collect identity contextual information from ISE for identity-based event logging as well as specifying quarantine actions for remediation.  Simply put, when an AMP for Endpoints malware detection appears in FireSIGHT, it dynamically instructs ISE to quarantine the infected endpoint.

With FireSIGHT and ISE working together for more dynamic controls, we drive further momentum after introducing Cisco ASA with FirePOWER Services and incorporation of Advanced Malware Protection (AMP) on Cisco content security products.

To install please visit the Cisco support community or visit our booth at Cisco Live Cancun November 3-6 for a demo.  For information on ISE, please see our recent post on the Cisco Identity Services Engine (ISE)and its expanding technology partner ecosystem.