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Cisco's security agent guards desktops
News The Cisco Security Agent for Desktops aims to stop attacks on corporate PCs by looking for anomalous network behaviour and blocking it, while Cisco Security Agent for Servers does the same for the heavy lifters of the corporate network.
[May 20, 2003, 9:09]
Evaluations of Host-Based Intrusion Prevention Systems (HIPS): Sana's Primary Response and Cisco's Cisco Security Agent
White Papers As part of the Federal Aviation Administration's (FAA's) "Intrusion Quarantine" project, the MITRE Corporation's Center for Advanced Aviation System Development (CAASD) conducted an evaluation of two products, Sana's Primary Response and Cisco's...
[September 1, 2005, 3:00]
Deploying Cisco Security Agent to Windows Desktops
White Papers The PowerPoint presentation outlines the results of a successful project to deploy Cisco Security Agent to 37,000 Windows desktops.
[February 19, 2005, 2:00]
Install Cisco Security Agent (CSA)
White Papers The Cisco Security Agent (CSA) enforces enterprise security policies by controlling individual workstations. This sample chapter, taken from Cisco Press' Cisco Security Agent, provides a general overviews of CSA Agent software components, briefly...
[May 25, 2006, 3:17]
Cisco Security Agent Antivirus
White Papers Signature-based antivirus products have long been the mainstay of endpoint security. Although new forms of malware require behavior-based protection for effective day-zero protection, antivirus continues to be a valuable component of endpoint...
[November 18, 2008, 0:00]
Cisco offers slew of security kit updates
News The products are Cisco's Intrusion Prevention System (IPS); its Security Agent (CSA); the Security Mitigation Analysis and Response System (CS-MARS); the Security Manager (CSM); and a Secure Sockets Layer virtual private network (SSL VPN) offering.
[February 6, 2007, 16:55]
Cisco teams up with Big Blue over network security
News The update is sent to Cisco's Access Control Server through the Cisco Trust Agent, software that is pre-installed on every user's machine. IBM and Cisco Systems have expanded a partnership to provide businesses with automated identity and access...
[October 15, 2004, 11:55]
Cisco boosts security line-up by acquisition
News In January 2003, Cisco announced it would buy Okena in order to provide technology for the "trusted agent," which sits on users' PCs and communicates with the Cisco policy server. Cisco Systems is making an acquisition designed to reinforce its...
[October 21, 2004, 17:25]
Cisco starts security push
News The company has also added more security features to its desktop security agent. The security agent sits on individual workstations, identifying malicious code in communications between network software systems.
[February 14, 2005, 8:00]
Cisco sounds multiple security warnings
News Patches for the OADM product and the Security Agent can be found on Cisco's Web site. And the Cisco Security Agent, a network security software agent that provides threat protection for server and desktop computers, can also be exploited by a...
[July 15, 2005, 9:40]
VigilantMinds Supports All Aspects of CSA Deployment
White Papers The Cisco Security Agent is the host-based Intrusion Prevention Solution (IPS) from Cisco Systems that analyzes network traffic behavior for potential threats, including worms, spyware, and zero-day attacks.
[June 20, 2007, 1:00]
How Cisco IT Upgraded Intrusion Prevention Software to Improve Endpoint Security
White Papers Even with the successful deployment of Cisco Security Agent Version 4.0 in February 2004, threats to the network continued to grow. New features and capabilities were needed beyond those found in Cisco Security Agent Version 4.0.
[March 5, 2008, 0:02]
Prevx intrusion detection puts agents on desktops
News Pervx's Intrusion Prevention System (IPS) will compete directly with Cisco's Security Agent, which was launched earlier this year. Instead, both Pervx's IPS and Cisco's Security Agent look for suspicious application behaviour by placing a small...
[December 17, 2003, 11:40]
Cisco takes NAC software open source
News Cisco is ceasing development of its network access control client software, called Cisco Trust Agent, and will submit the code to the open-source community. If NAP becomes the preferred software at the desktop for the two companies, it would make...
[February 12, 2007, 16:08]
Cisco initiative tackles mobile working security threat
News Cisco's Network Admission Control programme would enable companies to install on every PC and mobile device a client, called the Cisco Trust Agent, which could attest to certain levels of security, such as whether the device has been recently...
[November 19, 2003, 11:50]
Microsoft says Firefox 'not a threat to IE'
News However, Ross Fowler, managing director of Cisco Australia and New Zealand, said the network giant uses IE internally but only after deploying its Secure Agent, which is a desktop utility that monitors all activity and alerts the user if it spots...
[November 11, 2004, 10:52]
Cisco slammed despite upgrades
News But Jeff Platon, a marketing executive at Cisco, argued that when the software agent is widely deployed, it cuts back the amount of viruses and worms traversing a network. Okena's software agent sits on a user's PC and identifies malicious code in...
[March 10, 2004, 9:30]
Cisco CDMA2000 Packet Data Services
White Papers This paper includes the Cisco Packet Data Serving Node (PDSN); home agent and foreign agent functions; an Authentication, Authorization, and Accounting (AAA) server (the Cisco CNS Access Registrar server); and several security products and features.
[May 8, 2009, 4:21]
Cisco goes shopping again
News In fact, the critical "trust agent" software in the NAC architecture that sits on users' PCs and communicates with the Cisco policy server came from its acquisition in 2003 of Okena. Cisco continues to enhance its security capabilities through...
[December 21, 2004, 9:15]
Cisco finalises IronPort acquisition
News Trend Micro's software runs on Cisco's Adaptive Security Appliance (ASA), while the company's antivirus uses Cisco's trust agent. Cisco has finalised the acquisition of web security firm IronPort Systems, which it originally said it would acquire...
[June 26, 2007, 18:12]
