Cisco Security Agent

Chapter 4. Understanding CSA Policies, Modules, and Rules

This chapter covers the following topics:

• The relationship between policies, modules, and rule

• Establishing acceptable use documents and security policies

• CSA rule

• CSA rule modules

• CSA policies

The Cisco Security Agent (CSA) product has various capabilities that allow it to solve the many security issues facing today s enterprise networks. The following are just some of the issues security practitioners attempt to answer today:

• How can I prevent known attacks from impacting my network?

• How can I prevent day-zero attacks from causing loss of my resource confidentiality, integrity, and availability?

• How can I prevent certain applications, such as peer-to-peer file-sharing systems, from negatively ...