Cisco Security Agent

Chapter 5. Understanding Application Classes and Variables

This chapter covers the following topics

• Using application classes

• Introducing variables

The Cisco Security Agent (CSA) is designed to be a highly effective endpoint security product. Besides being highly effective, CSA is also extremely tunable and efficient. Application classes and variables are two ways that you can streamline CSA configuration. By using these mechanisms, you can cut down on the number of specific rules you need to explicitly define. Using variables available within the CSA architecture enables you to group applications, networks, services, and other items discussed throughout this chapter into named sets that become reusable objects. You can reuse these objects throughout ...