topic Intrusion Prevention VS Content Security in Network Security https://community.cisco.com/t5/network-security/intrusion-prevention-vs-content-security/m-p/1343475#M68724 <P>What is the difference between content security control and advanced intrusion prevention? The ASA 5500 offers these 2 seperate SSM Modules but I cant tell the difference in there capbilities.</P> Sun, 10 Mar 2019 11:44:49 GMT o.robertson 2019-03-10T11:44:49Z Intrusion Prevention VS Content Security https://community.cisco.com/t5/network-security/intrusion-prevention-vs-content-security/m-p/1343475#M68724 <P>What is the difference between content security control and advanced intrusion prevention? The ASA 5500 offers these 2 seperate SSM Modules but I cant tell the difference in there capbilities.</P> Sun, 10 Mar 2019 11:44:49 GMT https://community.cisco.com/t5/network-security/intrusion-prevention-vs-content-security/m-p/1343475#M68724 o.robertson 2019-03-10T11:44:49Z Re: Intrusion Prevention VS Content Security https://community.cisco.com/t5/network-security/intrusion-prevention-vs-content-security/m-p/1343476#M68725 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>The CSC (content security and control) module runs anti-virus, and anti-spyware software from Trend Micro.</P><P></P><P>The AIP (advanced intrusion prevention) module runs the IPS (Intrusion Prevention System) software from Cisco which is the same software that runs on Cisco's IPS Appliance.</P><P></P><P></P><P>The 2 modules protect from different types of attacks.</P><P>If you already have an IPS Appliance, then the CSC module may be a better investment.</P><P>If you already have anti-virus software on your company's mail server anti, and anti-spyware and anti-virus manditory on all of your company's computers, then an AIP to provide network level intrusion prevention may be a better investment.</P><P></P><P>The best would be to deploy both, but the ASA only has a single slot.</P><P>So if you need both technologies then purchasing one as an ASA module, and the second as a standalone appliance is a good alternative.</P><P></P><P></P><P></P></BODY></HTML> Fri, 21 Aug 2009 15:26:25 GMT https://community.cisco.com/t5/network-security/intrusion-prevention-vs-content-security/m-p/1343476#M68725 marcabal 2009-08-21T15:26:25Z