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Welcome back! In this blog we’re going to take a detour from our TrustSec series to introduce some modern endpoint management techniques in Microsoft Intune. Almost every customer we are working with is starting the journey to modern endpoint management with Microsoft Intune. As the functionality of Azure AD + Intune continues to mature, that once far away thought of shutting down those Microsoft...

Today we’ll be going over how to add a Cisco switch to ISE 3.0 for TACACS administration. For this configuration you’ll need an ISE PSN (Policy Service Node) node with Device Admin Services enabled and either a Cisco switch or router running IOS.

The topic of backing up is not always linear. Backing up a system can sometimes be confusing topic among System and Network Engineers. There are always multiple ways to back up and restore, but is it the recommended for the system? For example, experience has shown me that enabling virtual machine snapshots to systems like ISE can present itself with larger operational issues like sporadic...

It’s that time! Get up-to-date! In this entry we will be covering a MAJOR upgrade of a two-node ISE deployment from version 2.4 to version 3.0! Before you attempt this in your environment, read all the release notes in order to confirm your unique path and requirements! Good, let’s go!

Chooo Chooo!  The TrustSec Trains keeps rolling down the tracks in this latest entry.  We’ve made stops along the way to tell you what TrustSec is, to give you a primer to TrustSec, to dig into the TrustSec classification, and now we move on to TrustSec Propagation!  Right, so let’s go*! 

Recently I have been working on a couple of new ISE deployments for our customers and noticed the same ISE alarm (Active directory diagnostic tool found issues) was firing in both environments.

Having fun yet? Yeah? Well hold on to your hat because in this entry we’re going to dig into CTS classification!! Let’s try that again with a little more alliteration. Today we’re collapsing all of our coverage so as to claw at and climb into every crevice of CTS classification! Right, so let’s go*!

*If this is the first entry you are reading in this series on CTS or you don’t know what CTS...

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How to Setup Anyconnect Remote Access VPN w/ Cisco FMC and FTD Firewalls, utilizing ISE & Duo 2FA for authentication and authorization, that’s a mouthful, isn’t it? For those who aren’t sure what I’m talking about, the goal of this blog is to pass along what I learned getting Anyconnect remote access VPN working with ISE and Duo 2FA for...

Welcome back!  In our previous entry on Cisco TrustSec (CTS) we answered the question of why CTS is needed in the first place.  Now that we understand why we need it; we need to understand how to do it!  So how do you do it?  In short, first you classify, then you propagate, and finally enforce. In this entry to our ISE blog series we are going to cover some baseline context on all three of these in...

Hello loyal LP blog cats. In this week’s quick post, I’m going to show you a tactic I use to ensure that you never lock yourself out while making changes to a Cisco router or switch configurations.