Difference between ISE and NAC?

[abhisar patil]

Dear All,

Can you please help to understand difference ISE and NAC?

Thank You,

Abhisar.

[kaaftab]

Well ISE is the next generation of NAC and has extended the features some of the comparison of features are mentioned in the given diagram

********Do rate Helpful posts***********

[abhisar patil]

Dear Guys,

Thank You for your replies, it was really helpful.

The requirement is one of our customer wants to control endpoints ex. who can join the network, for 500 endpoints connected to Cisco 2960 Switches.

1. We can achieve this by port security but Customer is looking centralized solution, so can we achieve this by NAC?

2. Posture Assessment is the secondary requirement.

Please suggest.

Thank You,

Abhisar.

[Venkatesh Attuluri · Accepted solution]

ACS + NAC profiler + NAC guest + NAC manager + Nac Server = ISE

ISE does :

Centralized Policy
RADIUS Server
Posture Assessment
Guest Access Services
Device Profiling
MDM
Monitoring
Troubleshooting
Reporting

[Saurav Lodh · Accepted solution]

nice discussion over here

http://www.drchaos.com/comparing-cisco-ise-identity-services-engine-and-cisco-nac-appliance-clean-access/