Quick ISE XML Profile Creator

In this video, we’re going to be walking through how to use a special Excel spreadsheet that will help you create XML ISE profiles quickly on the fly. It’s probably not going to be a huge time-saver if you’re going to be just creating one profile on the fly but it’ll be very useful when you have to do dozens. Obviously, you can take the output and script this to create the XML a bit cleaner as well.

ISE Custom Profiles: Can't See The Forest From The Trees

When it comes to profiling endpoints, I’ve noticed that even some of the more ISE-focused engineers even see it as something that’s magical and vague that happens behind the scenes. This is not specific to ISE either. I don’t think I’ve ever seen a network access control product that has 100% profiling fidelity or as granular as a customer might expect it to be. I would say that the built-in profiles for ISE probably identifies 90% of endpoints from at least a high level. The purpose of this blog post is to help remove some of that “behind-the-scenes” magic for you so you can making profiling work for you.

Configuring pxGrid on Splunk for Rapid Threat Containment with ISE

In this video, we’re going to configure pxGrid on Splunk. Once that’s completed, you’ll be able to quarantine endpoints from Splunk using ISE. This requires a bit more setup that your usual pxGrid configuration so I’ll include the commands I used in this post so one may copy and paste for the Linux portion of this. Whether or not you’re using CA-signed certs for pxGrid or self-signed in your ISE environment, this configuration should work for both.

1.45 - Setting up and walkthrough of the Cisco Security Suite App in Splunk

In this video, we’re going to set up the Cisco Security Suite app within Splunk and walk through some of the cool things that we can do from the dashboard. One thing to note though is that this app was last updated in 2016 so there’s definitely some massaging that needs to be done to make it compatible with certain current add-ons.