CASE STUDY

Full visibility of network resources and simplified management

Project Scope

ISE Implementation at a big Financial Entity in Africa to Mitigate unauthorized access to network resources and provide full visibility of network resources while simplifying the management of network access services.

Customer Overview

  • One of the leading Financial Enterprises in the East Africa region.
  • More than 80 branches.
  • More than 800 employees.
  • Provides mission critical services on a 24/7 basis.

Business Challenge

The request from organization business was to:

  • Mitigate unauthorized access to network resources.
  • Apply Organization access-policy over various type of connected devices.
  • Overcome the lack of visibility of the whole network resources.
  • Simplify the complexity of old posture validation solutions.
  • Customer had bad experience with their old Access Control Solution.

How We Helped

In this project our team built the Low Level Design document, Migration Plan, and implemented the whole solution with a very sophisticated Migration Plan, to ensure no unplanned Down-Time.

The execution of the project included:

  • Offline Studying for customer requirements.
  • Building labs for simulating customer environment.
  • Solving 90% of the issues before getting into the life environment.
  • Building a timeplan based on the practice.
  • Apply on Pilot Setup.
  • Deploy in Phases.
  • Knowledge Transfer & Hands-On sessions during and after the execution.

Benefits for Business

  • Realize ROI by ensuring no unauthorized access to IT resources.
  • Simplifying managing of network access services.
  • Providing full visibility for network resources and accessing devices, regardless of the types of Operating Systems on users PCs.
  • Devices without Users.
  • A Seamless Deployment is required.
  • Minimum Down-Time.

Products List

  • Cisco Identity Service Engine
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