Re: Cisco CSA

[professor buddha <pbuddha13 () yahoo com>]

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

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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 





        
                
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