Advanced Host Intrusion Prevention with CSA

Appendix A. Best Practices Deployment Guidelines

The main portion of this text discusses the technical management of Cisco Security Agent (CSA). Successful deployment of CSA requires a solid technical understanding of CSA, and support from management, server administrators, and users are as important. Management has to support the CSA implementation team, and the users and server administrators must understand the goals of the CSA implementation, or users will encounter considerable friction during the deployment.

Although most technical professionals hate to see this, in a large organization the political aspects of a CSA deployment can sometimes be more important than the technical details. CSA is inherently limiting to your users and administrators, ...