General CSA Agent Components Overview

You have access to several “under-the-hood” components that are built in to CSA. To fully understand how CSA works, it is best to get at least a high-level understanding of a few of the key components and their interaction on the local agent system.

When rules are changed, edited, added, or removed on the CSA MC that pertain to the particular rules and policies running on your agent, you need to update your local policies with the necessary changes. To do this, your local security agent software communicates with the CSA MC via HTTPS (443) to retrieve the new information. If you recall from an earlier discussion in Chapter 2, “Introducing the Cisco Security Agent,” the CSA architecture uses a pull model whereby ...

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