Cisco Identity Services Engine (ISE)

Cisco Identity Services Engine (ISE) is a market-leading security policy management platform that unifies and automates highly secure access control to enforce role-based access to networks and network resources. It serves as the cornerstone of a zero-trust security framework, enabling organizations to enforce security policies, manage endpoints, and ensure only trusted users and devices access network resources. ISE gathers detailed contextual information about users, devices, locations, and access methods to enforce policies, continuously assesses device posture for compliance, and offers automated threat containment. It integrates with ecosystem partners via Cisco Platform Exchange Grid (pxGrid) technology to share contextual data for faster threat identification and remediation. It functions as a consolidated system for Authentication, Authorization, and Accounting (AAA) using RADIUS and supports Cisco TrustSec for policy-defined network segmentation.