Securing Network Device Access With Cisco ACS  (and Active Directory)
Nov17

Securing Network Device Access With Cisco ACS (and Active Directory)

KB ID 0000942 Problem For network identification I have tended to use RADIUS (in a Windows NPS or IAS flavour), in the past. I turned my back on Cisco TACACS+ back in my ‘Studying for CCNA’ days, because back then it was clunky and awful. I have a client that will be installing ACS in the near future, so I thought I would take a look at it again, and was surprised at how much more polished it is. As Cisco plans to roll ACS...

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Cisco ISE – Basic 802.1x With Windows  Part Two – Configuring 802.1x Policies
Nov17

Cisco ISE – Basic 802.1x With Windows Part Two – Configuring 802.1x Policies

KB ID 0001075 D Problem Back in Part One, we joined Cisco ISE to Active Directory, now we we will take the built in ISE policies and change them. This will allow our clients to authenticate, with the correct protocols. Solution 1. By default ISE will use pretty much any available protocol, we are going to use PEAP, although I’m also going to allow EAP-TLS (it’s more secure and if I start rolling out certificates I’ve...

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