: Integrate IoT Security with Cisco DNA Center
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Integrate IoT Security with Cisco DNA Center

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Integrate
IoT Security
with Cisco DNA Center

Integrate
IoT Security
through
Cortex XSOAR
with Cisco DNA Center to retrieve details about active devices.
IoT Security
integrates through
Cortex XSOAR
with Cisco DNA (Digital Network Architecture) Center so it can import select information about the devices (or endpoints) it’s monitoring from the Cisco DNA Center infrastructure. Cisco DNA Center manages networking devices like switches and routers and network access controllers like Cisco ISE, Cisco WLAN controllers, and others. It also learns about servers and clients indirectly through the various networking devices it manages; however, it doesn't interact with servers and clients in any way.
IoT Security
retrieves data about all device types—both networking devices and client and server devices—from DNA Center.
A specified on-premises XSOAR engine fetches the following information from DNA Center and then sends it through the
Cortex XSOAR
cloud to
IoT Security
to incorporate into the data it has already gathered from network traffic and behavior analysis:
  • Device MAC address
  • Device IP address
  • Connection type—wired or wireless
    If it’s a wired device:
    • Name, MAC address, and IP address of the switch with which the device is connected
    • Ethernet interface on the switch to which the device is connected and a description for it
    • VLAN ID to which the device is assigned
    If it’s a wireless device:
    • Name, MAC address, and IP address of the AP with which the device is associated
    • SSID on which the device associates with the AP
    • IEEE 802.11 protocols used to form the association
    • VLAN ID to which the device is assigned
With this information,
IoT Security
can provide more granular endpoint reports and better detection of misconfigurations and anomalies. For example, the following illustrations show information that IoT Security learned from Cisco DNA Center about a PACS station named
GRADLT900
:
  • Connection type: wireless
  • The hostname and IP address of the switch that’s cabled to the AP serving GRADLT900
  • The Ethernet port number on the switch to which the AP is cabled
  • The VLAN to which the PACS station is assigned
IoT Security can integrate with multiple Cisco DNA Center instances at one site or multiple sites, which is sometimes necessary for large deployments where a single DNA Center instance is not enough. In these cases, one or more XSOAR engines integrate with one or more of the DNA Center instances.
Make sure each XSOAR engine can form a network connection on TCP port 443 to the DNA Center instance with which it’s coupled. Then follow the instructions below to set up the integration between the two.
Integrating with Cisco DNA Center requires either a full-featured Cortex XSOAR server or the purchase and activation of an
IoT Security
third-party integration add-on license, which comes with a free cohosted Cortex XSOAR instance. The basic plan includes a license for three integration add-ons, one of which can be used for this. The advanced plan includes a license for all supported third-party integrations.

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