RE: Cisco CSA

From: Gary Freeman (Gary.Freeman_at_rci.rogers.com)
Date: 05/28/04

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    Date: Fri, 28 May 2004 08:29:18 -0400
    To: <bryan_khoo@dynacraft.com>, "Cherian Palayoor" <securinet2004@yahoo.ca>
    
    

    I agree with Bryan,

    Better to use an inline distributed solution to a major problem like
    worm propagation than try to police every workstation. We have a
    standard desktop with McAfee and Microsoft updated via a scheduler. CSA
    is fine for systems running Cisco's agent but what about vendor laptops
    or rogue systems that don't adhere to the corporate policy. They (in
    our experience) are the usual suspects when faced with systems that
    don't conform to our policy.

    We use IDS (haven't chosen an IPS vendor) and NetScout to watch the
    network core and all of the remote edge networks for worms. We are also
    analyzing netflow statistics with Arbour now to detect infected
    workstations.

    Cisco pitched us on CSA last year when we had Nachi and they had just
    acquired the product. The product falls short of meeting all
    requirements and in the final analysis, added more over-head to desktop
    management.

    // Gary Freeman //

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    From: bryan_khoo@dynacraft.com [mailto:bryan_khoo@dynacraft.com]
    Sent: Wednesday, May 26, 2004 8:18 PM
    To: Cherian Palayoor
    Cc: security-basics@securityfocus.com
    Subject: Re: Cisco CSA

    Hi Cherian,
                  You can look into product like IPS. I think it should be
    better than CSA.

    Rdgs,
    Bryan

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    Hi,

    Can anyone give me some feedback on the Cisco Security
    Agent. This product claims to stop malicious behaviour
    on machines infected by any malware.

    We were recently hit pretty hard by Sasser. Cisco has
    since been trying to sell us this product as a
    heuristic solution to malicious activity on the
    network. The product does not depend on any signature
    updates and is entirely behavioural.

    Cisco puports to have successfully stopped Sasser from
    doing any damage.

    Can anyone confirm this to be a fact. The product does
    not come cheap.

    Thanks in advance.

    Regards

    Cherian

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