Cisco Cisco ScanSafe Web Security Getting Started Guide

At-a-Glance

Comprehensive Threat Defenses, Built for the Branch

You’re deploying Cisco® Intelligent WAN (IWAN) in your branch 

locations, and it’s going to save you a lot of money. By shifting 

noncritical traffic to the public Internet, you’ll be able to give branch 

users the performance and reliability they need for a fraction of the cost 

of premium WAN service connections. 
But there’s one thing to keep in mind: Now that your branch users 

can get directly to the Internet, everything on the Internet can also get 

to them. You’ve solved one important business problem but possibly 

introduced another by increasing your exposure to malware and other 

threats on the wide-open web.
Cisco IWAN with Cloud Web Security (CWS) addresses that security 

concern. From the cloud, it delivers the world’s most advanced Internet 

threat defense capabilities to the same Cisco Integrated Services Router 

(ISR) you use for IWAN. As a cloud service, CWS provides everything 

you need to protect your most important assets without adding any new 

hardware or complexity at remote sites. So you can unlock the value 

of IWAN to slash branch connectivity costs with confidence that your 

resources are secure.

Protect Your Branches Before, During, and After Attacks

Using Cisco IWAN with CWS, your administrators can set and enforce 

specific web-use policies across your entire environment. Connect Cisco 

CWS to your existing infrastructure with flexible network integration 

options to automate access control to websites and specific content 

in webpages and applications. You get continual industry-leading 

antimalware and zero-day threat protection against web-based attacks.
Cisco Advanced Malware Protection guards against advanced malware 

and tracks file disposition over time to see where malicious files travel. 

Cisco Cognitive Threat Analytics scans web traffic for symptoms of an 

infection and addresses threats that bypass perimeter defenses. And 

centralized management and reporting provide increased visibility into 

web usage and threat information. 
Block both known and unknown Internet attacks with all of these services 

running continuously on your IWAN branch router. And, because all 

of these capabilities are delivered from the cloud, they give you the 

comprehensive defenses you need when opening the branch to the 

public Internet with no hardware, complexity, or scalability limitations.

Next Steps

To learn more about how Cisco Intelligent WAN with Cloud Web Security 
can protect your branch locations, visit 

Cisco Intelligent WAN 

with Cloud Web Security

Benefits

•  Unlock the full value of your 

Cisco IWAN investment by 

accessing advanced threat 

defense capabilities from the 

same branch router.

•  Protect your branches against 

Internet threats with the world’s 

largest and most advanced 

threat-detection network.

•  Defend against unknown and 

targeted attacks by tightly 

controlling network, file, and 

user behavior. 

•  Simplify operations with a 

cloud-based solution that adds 

no hardware, complexity, or 

scalability limitations to the 

branch network.

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