Based in Sharjah and operating with 25 branches throughout UAE, the bank offers its clients tailor-made financial services in both corporate and retail banking, and has mainly established itself as a leading solutions provider for a growing commercial and industrial base across the seven emirates. Bank has its priorities on IT security for the current year wishes to secure the complete infrastructure and thereby Customers critical data. In this process they wanted to control all devices that are connected to their infrastructure to be compliant with their IT policies and restrict access for different type of users based on their authority.

Business Scenario

The bank maintains a complete Cisco infrastructure across their network. They currently have implemented 802.1X authentication across their network devises and have made progress in restricting access. They wish to move to the next level of IT security by enabling advanced features of ISE.

Bank requires to have a secured network with restricted access for all users to its IT resources. The current requirements can be briefed as follows:

• Device Administration to move from ACS to ISE
• Posturing and Profiling of all the 802.1x Clients
• Integration with McAfee EPO as Antivirus and Microsoft SCCM for Patching
• Deployment of SGT based Firewall Rules across all Firewalls through CSM
• Accelerate Cisco IOS Software standardization in the face of frequent strategic business decision changes
• Implement coherent security policy to enable more granular controls of approved, suspect, and rogue devices
• Prohibit non-compliant devices from accessing critical applications
• Help ensure segmentation of development and production systems