Cisco WSA (Cisco Secure Web Appliance)

Cisco WSA (Web Security Appliance) is a proven on-premise solution that protect businesses with broad threat intelligence, multi layers of defense and vital data loss prevention capabilities. Cisco web security appliance intercepts and monitors internet traffic and applies policies to help keep your internal network secure from malware, sensitive data loss, productivity loss and other internet-based threats.

What is Cisco Secure Web Appliance

It combines advanced threat defense, advanced malware protection, AMP application visibility control, ABC insightful reporting secure mobility and more all in a single solution it also helps secure and control web traffic while simplifying deployment and reducing costs. In both virtual and appliance WSA, various features can be enabled by using certain Cisco WSA licenses.  

Cisco Security Licenses

Cisco WSA Features

Cisco Web Security Appliance (WSA) offers Before, During and After attack Protection.

Before: Cisco WSA detects and correlates threats on real time by tapping into the largest threat detection network in the world, TALOS security intelligence and research group. To discover where threats are hiding, Talos pulls massive quantities of information from multiple sources, firewall, IPS, Web, email and VPN. Talos refreshes this information every three to five minutes.

Adding intelligence to and receiving intelligence from, Cisco WSA and other network security devices. This allows Cisco WSA to deliver solid defense hours and even days ahead of competitors. Cisco WSA analyzes and categorizes unknown URLs and blocks those that fall below a defined security threshold. The instant web request is made, web reputation filters analyze more than 200 different web traffic and network related parameters to determine the level of risk associated with a site.

After checking parameters, like the domain owner, the server where the site is hosted, the time that the site was created and the type of site, the site is given a reputation score. Based on that score, the site is blocked, allowed or delivered with a warning.

Cisco WSA combines traditional URL filtering with real time analysis. It shuts down access to site known to host malware, based on a list of known websites from a Cisco database of over 50 million blocked sites. It accurately identifies inappropriate content in real time for 90 percent of unknown URLs.  Customers, by purchasing Cisco WSA licenses, can benefit from its complete features.  

During: Cisco WSA provides enhanced malware defense signature and analytical scanning engines that run in parallel on single appliance. Cisco WSA integrates data loss prevention (DLP), functionality with DLP solutions from leading vendors. Powerful engines inspect outbound traffic, analyze it for content markers such as confidential files, credit card numbers, customer data and more, and prevent these data to being uploaded to the web.

Advanced Malware Protection (AMP) uncovers precise details about that file’s behavior and combines that data with detailed human and machine analysis to determine its disposition.

After: If a final disposition changes to malicious after entering the network AMP will retrospectively alert the user and the administrator.

Cisco WSA License 

Cisco WSA license can be applied on the devices using both classic and smart licenses. Cisco WSA classic licenses refers to the legacy methods used for both hardware and virtual licenses. Although, by using Cisco WSA smart licensing, all licenses can be purchased and managed on the Cisco smart software management website.    

Cisco web security appliance can protect your internal network. As it offers before, during, and after attack protection, you will be given a vast support by this license. For getting details on price and order, you can ask us. Our specialists are ready to pass.

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