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An engineer must use certificate authentication for endpoints that connect to a wired network with a Cisco ISE deployment. The engineer must define the certificate field used as the principal…

The correct answer is D. authentication profile. To define which certificate field serves as the principal username for certificate authentication in Cisco ISE, an authentication profile must be configured.

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Question

An engineer must use certificate authentication for endpoints that connect to a wired network with a Cisco ISE deployment. The engineer must define the certificate field used as the principal username. What is needed to complete the configuration?

Options

  • Aauthorization profile
  • Bauthentication policy
  • Cauthorization rule
  • Dauthentication profile

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  • D
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Why each option

To define which certificate field serves as the principal username for certificate authentication in Cisco ISE, an authentication profile must be configured.

Aauthorization profile

An authorization profile defines the access permissions and attributes granted to an authenticated user, not how the user is authenticated.

Bauthentication policy

An authentication policy determines which authentication protocol and identity source sequence to use based on specific conditions, but the detailed mapping of certificate fields to username is within the authentication profile.

Cauthorization rule

An authorization rule matches conditions to an authorization profile to determine access, it does not define certificate field mapping for authentication.

Dauthentication profileCorrect

An authentication profile in Cisco ISE is used to define how endpoints are authenticated, including specifying the identity store sequence and which certificate attribute (like SAN or CN) will be used as the username for certificate-based authentication.

Concept tested: Cisco ISE certificate authentication profiles

Source: https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/security/ise/2-2/admin_guide/b_ise_admin_guide_22/b_ise_admin_guide_22_chapter_01100.html

Topics

#Certificate Authentication#Cisco ISE#Authentication Profile#Identity Extraction

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