Which method defines the integration of Cisco Industrial Network Director with the Cisco identity Service Engine?

Question

Options

• ACisco IND integrates with ISE via Cisco Strealthwatch services.
• BCisco IND integrates with ISE using RADIUS services.
• CCisco IND is registered with pxGrid on ISE as a publisher.
• DCisco IND pulls the profiling information from ISE.

• A
  7% (3)
• B
  2% (1)
• C
  88% (38)
• D
  2% (1)

Explanation

Option C is correct because Cisco Industrial Network Director (IND) integrates with Cisco ISE through pxGrid (Platform Exchange Grid), Cisco's context-sharing framework. IND registers as a publisher on pxGrid, meaning it pushes industrial endpoint and network data into the ISE ecosystem, enabling ISE to use that contextual information for policy enforcement.

Why the distractors are wrong:

• A is wrong because Stealthwatch (Cisco Secure Network Analytics) is a separate threat detection product with its own ISE integration - it is not the mechanism IND uses.
• B is wrong because RADIUS is an authentication/authorization protocol used between network devices and ISE for access control, not for application-level product integration.
• D reverses the data flow - IND does not pull profiling data from ISE; it publishes data to ISE via pxGrid.

Memory tip: Think of the direction - IND is in the industrial network, pushing (publishing) endpoint context upstream to ISE. The word publisher in option C signals the correct data flow direction. If you remember "IND publishes, ISE governs," you'll lock this in.

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