ASA vs ISE
Hi guys,.
I'm a noob when it comes to ASA and almost no experience with ISE other than what I can find online. It seems that both are the same kinds of things for us. Security for virtual private networks. What other differences or similarities are there between these products? The most fundamental differences is useful since I'm just starting with ISE.
Thank you!
Welcome and best wishes on your learning.
ASA vs ISE... There is only about 5% overlap in these products.
The ASA controls access to network endpoints if they are, say, remote access VPN clients. It can be a little the posture of audit to ensure that the host is compatible with policy. He made a lot of other things--stateful firewalling, network address translation, site to site VPN, protocol inspection, etc.
ISE gives you based on the context network access control via classic offers AAA (authentication authorization and accounting) combined with powerful features such as the end point of profiling, assessment of posture, set of rules extremely rich of creation and treatment etc. ISE integrates with many shops of external identity as AD, LDAP, RADIUS, etc. and can itself act as a RADIUS server. A lot of what it actually, in the context of 802. 1 x network access control is via the change of approval (CoA) using the (A - V) RADIUS attribute-value pairs. CoA can do things like dynamically change the assignment of VLAN end-user, push down a port-based dynamic access list, assign a security group label (SGT), redirect to a web portal for authentication, sanitation, etc. the registration of the device.
This is just a quick comparison and contrast. You can literally spend years to learn together and he still doesn't know all of one or the other.
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