Cisco Cisco Web Security Appliance S690 User Guide
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AsyncOS 8.5 for Cisco Web Security Appliances User Guide
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Introduction to the Product and the Release
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Introduction to the Web Security Appliance
The Cisco Web Security Appliance intercepts and monitors internet traffic and applies policies to help
keep your internal network secure from malware, sensitive data loss, productivity loss, and other
internet-based threats.
keep your internal network secure from malware, sensitive data loss, productivity loss, and other
internet-based threats.
What’s New in This Release
The following new features and enhancements have been added in this release.
Feature
Description
High Availability
This release provides a built-in high availability option suitable for
deployments in which the appliance runs in explicit mode with a proxy.
deployments in which the appliance runs in explicit mode with a proxy.
For more information, see the “Connect, Install, and Configure” chapterin
the User Guide.
the User Guide.
2048-bit certificates
The key length for SSL certificates generated or processed by the appliance
is now 2048 bits.
is now 2048 bits.
LDAP authentication
LDAP protocol is now supported for authenticating administrative users
of the appliance.
of the appliance.
Volume and Time Quotas You can apply time and volume quotas to access policies and decryption
policies. Quotas allow individual users to continue accessing an Internet
resource (or a class of Internet resources) until they exhaust the data volume
or time limit imposed.
resource (or a class of Internet resources) until they exhaust the data volume
or time limit imposed.