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Re: Cisco CSA
From: professor buddha <pbuddha13 () yahoo com>
Date: Thu, 27 May 2004 08:25:03 -0700 (PDT)
Cherian, Depending on your scenario, CSA would probably do what you want. Out of the box it comes programmed with rules to stop most malicious behaviour and like you said operates on these behaviours and not signatures so there is no subscription or maintenance required in that respect. So that doesn't necessarily mean it can stop machines from being infected 100% of the time but even when a machines becomes infected it will stop it from replicating(ie. CSA says why are we trying to send these packets to p445 on all these computers, we shouldn't be doing this, either deny or prompt the user...) The caveat comes in fine-tuning the rules specific to your organization and the different tasks that different folks do and how they comply with the standard out-of-th-box rules... You will probably find that you will have to make a lot of exceptions to the rules for certain users so they can actually do their work. Overall I would say CSA does exactly what they say it should, but is relatively resource intensive and atleast initially required a decent amount of support. A new version with several key improvement is slated to come out in september i think. Another product to look into might be Sygate's Enterprise Enforcer... Hope that helps, Matt ______________________________________ Hi, Can anyone give me some feedback on the Cisco Security Agent. This product claims to stop malicious behaviour on machines infected by any malware. We were recently hit pretty hard by Sasser. Cisco has since been trying to sell us this product as a heuristic solution to malicious activity on the network. The product does not depend on any signature updates and is entirely behavioural. Cisco puports to have successfully stopped Sasser from doing any damage. Can anyone confirm this to be a fact. The product does not come cheap. Thanks in advance. Regards Cherian __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Friends. Fun. Try the all-new Yahoo! Messenger. http://messenger.yahoo.com/ --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ethical Hacking at the InfoSec Institute. Mention this ad and get $545 off any course! All of our class sizes are guaranteed to be 10 students or less to facilitate one-on-one interaction with one of our expert instructors. Attend a course taught by an expert instructor with years of in-the-field pen testing experience in our state of the art hacking lab. Master the skills of an Ethical Hacker to better assess the security of your organization. Visit us at: http://www.infosecinstitute.com/courses/ethical_hacking_training.html ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
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