Full Part Number: CAS-S400-A2
Manufacturer Company: Cisco Systems, Inc.
Overview: The Cisco CAS-S400-A2 is an advanced content security appliance designed to provide comprehensive threat protection and content filtering for enterprise networks. This appliance offers industry-leading security features to safeguard against malware, phishing attacks, and other cyber threats, while also providing granular control over internet access and application usage.
Key Features:
Advanced Threat Protection: Utilizes advanced threat intelligence and detection techniques to identify and block known and unknown threats in real-time.
Content Filtering: Provides granular content filtering capabilities to control access to websites and applications based on categories, URLs, and keywords.
SSL Inspection: Performs SSL/TLS decryption and inspection to detect and block encrypted threats and malicious content.
Application Visibility and Control: Offers application visibility and control (AVC) features to identify and prioritize applications based on their importance and business relevance.
Centralized Management: Managed through a centralized management interface, allowing administrators to configure policies, monitor traffic, and generate reports from a single console.
Scalability: Designed for scalability to support growing network demands, with options for clustering and high availability configurations.
Integration with Security Ecosystem: Integrates seamlessly with other security products and solutions, such as Cisco Security Intelligence Operations (SIO), Cisco Umbrella, and Cisco Threat Response.
Applications:
Enterprise Networks: Ideal for enterprise networks of all sizes, providing comprehensive threat protection and content filtering to safeguard against cyber threats and ensure regulatory compliance.
Government Organizations: Deployed in government organizations to protect sensitive information, critical infrastructure, and citizen data from cyber attacks and security breaches.
Educational Institutions: Used in educational institutions to enforce acceptable use policies (AUPs), prevent access to inappropriate content, and protect students and staff from online threats.
Financial Services: Deployed in financial services organizations to protect customer data, prevent fraud, and comply with industry regulations such as PCI DSS (Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard).
Healthcare Providers: Utilized by healthcare providers to secure electronic health records (EHRs), comply with HIPAA regulations, and protect patient privacy and confidentiality.
Retail Industry: Deployed in retail environments to secure POS systems, protect customer data, and prevent data breaches and cyber attacks targeting payment card information.
Specifications:
Threat Protection: Malware detection, phishing protection, URL filtering
Content Filtering: Category-based filtering, URL filtering, keyword filtering
SSL Inspection: SSL/TLS decryption and inspection
Application Visibility: Application identification, application control
Management Interface: Web-based management console, command-line interface (CLI)
Scalability: Cluster support, high availability configurations
Integration: Integration with Cisco security ecosystem products
Why Choose:
Comprehensive Threat Protection: Provides comprehensive threat protection against malware, phishing attacks, and other cyber threats, ensuring the security of enterprise networks and sensitive data.
Granular Content Filtering: Offers granular content filtering capabilities to control access to websites and applications based on user roles, groups, and policies, ensuring compliance with acceptable use policies and regulatory requirements.
SSL Inspection: Performs SSL/TLS decryption and inspection to detect and block encrypted threats and malicious content, providing visibility into encrypted traffic and enhancing overall security posture.
Centralized Management: Managed through a centralized management interface, simplifying policy configuration, monitoring, and reporting across distributed network environments.
Scalability: Designed for scalability to support growing network demands, with options for clustering and high availability configurations to ensure uninterrupted protection and performance.
Integration: Integrates seamlessly with other Cisco security products and solutions, enabling enhanced threat intelligence sharing, automated response, and streamlined security operations.