consistent access policy and threat response from network to endpoint with Cisco, McAfee and Alliance Partners
Cisco® pxGrid and McAfee OpenDXL are open frameworks that support multivendor, cross-platform collaboration on network systems, including security monitoring and detection systems, network policy platforms, identity and access management platforms, and virtually any other IT operations platform. Cisco and McAfee have integrated our respective security fabrics as well as the Cisco Identity Services Engine (ISE) and McAfee® ePolicy Orchestrator® (ePO). Together, they deliver:
• Coordinated network and endpoint threat responses
• Comprehensive visibility into network-attached endpoints
• Threat response interoperability among our respective vendor partner ecosystems
Cisco ISE provides a wealth of user identity, endpoint device, and network context information that is useful to many IT platforms. To bring greater insight to risky user activities on the network, and to mitigate those events, Cisco ISE uses the pxGrid technology to share its network-attached endpoint session inventory with OpenDXL. The information is then relayed to McAfee ePO. This process provides ePO with visibility of endpoints that it may not have under its management. ePO can then determine whether to bring a newly discovered endpoint under management. Similarly, Cisco ISE can detect whether an endpoint has McAfee ePO installed and can create