Cisco ASA Content Security and Control (CSC) Security Services Module

[Ashley Price]

Introduction

The Cisco ASA 5500 Series Content Security and Control Security Services Module (CSC-SSM) delivers threat protection and content control by providing comprehensive antivirus, anti-spyware, file blocking, anti-spam, anti-phishing, URL blocking and filtering, and content filtering.

• Comprehensive malware protection:
  • The CSC-SSM can prevent virtually all known malicious code from entering and propagating across the network.
• Advanced content filtering:
  • The module integrates How to configure URL filtering in the PIX Firewall, content filtering and anti-phishing technology to protect content across the network.
• Integrated message security
  • The CSC-SSM integrates anti-spam technology that removes the vast majority of unsolicited e-mail before it gets to the mail server which results in improvement of network bandwidth and storage resources.
• Customization and tuning capabilities:
  • Provides the ability to customize control over spam and content functions.
• The CSC-SSM has an intuitive interface integrated with the ASA-5500 Adaptive Security Device Manager (ASDM) which provides the following benefits:
  • Enables simple, user-friendly initial configuration
  • Easy deployment into the network
  • Monitoring and user control over ongoing operations
• Automatic updates capabilities:
  • All CSC Overview - components including scanning engines and pattern files are automatically updated.

Models

CSC-SSM-10

CSC-SSM-20