topic Re: Cisco Secure Endpoint as Posture Checking Agent On ISE in Endpoint Security

Cisco Secure Endpoint as Posture Checking Agent On ISE

Connor Fowler — Wed, 26 Jul 2023 15:26:06 GMT

Hello Everyone,

I was hoping someone could help me out with understanding the posture checking on Cisco ISE.

The short question is: can I use the Cisco Secure Endpoint as the agent that will send the posture updates to Cisco ISE or will it only work with the Anyconnect agent?

I would like to limit the amount of software I need to install on endpoints and we have already provided the Cisco Secure Enpoint software for the site.

Appreciate the help!

Kind regards,

Re: Cisco Secure Endpoint as Posture Checking Agent On ISE

Marvin Rhoads — Wed, 26 Jul 2023 15:55:01 GMT

Secure endpoint (for AMP for Endpoints) cannot act as a source of posture evaluation for ISE. You need either the ISE Posture agent or one of the options like temporal agent (installs dynamically and then removes itself only to check posture at connection time) or agentless posture (uses a service account of the host to report to ISE).

Re: Cisco Secure Endpoint as Posture Checking Agent On ISE

Ken Stieers — Wed, 26 Jul 2023 15:57:20 GMT

No, but that's an interesting use case... but to get all of the info you'd want, you'd need to be on Secure Endpoint Advantage (you'd need Orbital)... but in the end, slow.
The posture language in ISE needs that specific piece as part of the Cisco Secure Client/AnyConnect stack.
You can add the ISE posture module to the headend so it gets installed when they connect, you don't have to push it...
Or if you use CSC cloud management, you can deploy it by just adding it to the deployment, and your endpoints should pick it up.

Re: Cisco Secure Endpoint as Posture Checking Agent On ISE

Connor Fowler — Mon, 31 Jul 2023 13:22:07 GMT

Thanks, Marvin!