RE: CSA vs anti-virus, anti-spam, popup blockers, etc

From: Aaron T. Woland (aaron.woland@ins.com)
Date: Sun Mar 12 2006 - 12:01:26 GMT-3


Think of CSA in the same light as you would any Host Based Intrusion
Detection software.

It MAY prevent a virus from communicating, but you still need the Anti-Virus
to clean the "bad software" off your system.

CSA will do NOTHING to help you with SPAM, or Pop-Ups, so don't think it
replaces those.

-Aaron

Aaron T. Woland | Consultant | INS | Email: aaron.woland@ins.com |
Website: www.ins.com

-----Original Message-----
From: nobody@groupstudy.com [mailto:nobody@groupstudy.com] On Behalf Of Tim
Sent: Saturday, March 11, 2006 5:13 PM
To: ccielab@groupstudy.com; security@groupstudy.com
Subject: CSA vs anti-virus, anti-spam, popup blockers, etc

Hi guys,

 

Should I think of CSA (Cisco Security Agent) as an alternative to all the
various anti -badstuff software that's out there or think of CSA as just
another tool that can be used to further protect a system?

 

From what I'm hearing, CSA if properly setup and configured can negate the
need for all that anti-badstuff software.

 

Please feel free to offer your thoughts and comments.

 

TIA, Tim



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