Cisco Identity Services Engine Konnet

Cisco ISE Case Study

Konnet

This case study of Konnet is based on a March 2021 survey of Cisco ISE customers by TechValidate, a 3rd-party research service.

“Cisco ISE significantly improved our network security profile while also reducing costs.”

Chose Cisco ISE because:

ISE improves their cyber profile by integrating with their existing security products to provide continual trusted access
ISE offers unique capabilities that other vendors do not offer
They trust Cisco’s strategy and customer service to achieve their security outcomes
Cisco’s comprehensive security portfolio makes their ISE investment more valuable
ISE is an integral piece of their zero-trust strategy to control access based on least privilege

Integrated the following Cisco products with Cisco ISE:

The surveyed company achieved the following results with Cisco ISE:

ISE makes them feel more confident in their ability to:
- Gain asset visibility – knowing who and what’s on their network
- Assure endpoint compliance – validating device security posture before granting access
- Build network segmentation – using the network itself to enforce access policy
- Automate threat containment – context sharing through integration with other security products to stop threats
- Administer devices – protecting privileged access (TACACS+)
- Secure trusted access – providing guests and contractors quick access
Cisco ISE helped them:
- Provide actionable visibility on the users and devices on the network
- Minimize their risk of unsecure/unknown devices entering the network
- Maintain compliance with regulatory requirements
- Minimize the impact of a breach with automated threat containment
- Give employees the flexibility to connect from anywhere and on anything
Achieved the following value through Cisco ISE integrations:
- Bringing external context into ISE for better access policy decisions
- Sharing context out from ISE to other technologies for better access policy decisions
- Building policy enforcement into the network to increase ROI of existing solutions
- Bringing context into ISE to automate threat containment
Rates their experience with Cisco ISE as Excellent in the following ways:
- Performance
- Capability
- Reliability
- Scalability
- Deployment