Cisco Cisco Web Security Appliance S690 User Guide

Select Web Security Manager > Access Policies. 

Click the link in the Anti-Malware and Reputation column for a policy in the table. 

In the Advanced Malware Protection Settings section, select Enable File Reputation Filtering and 
File Analysis. 

If File Analysis is not enabled globally, only File Reputation Filtering is offered. 

Select an action for Known Malicious and High-Risk Files: Monitor or Block. 

The default is Monitor. 

Submit and commit your changes. 

Ensure that the appliance is configured to send you alerts related to Advanced Malware Protection.  

You will receive alerts when: 

Email Security 
appliance

Advanced Settings for File Analysis section 
on the Security Services > File Reputation and Analysis page. 

Web Security 
appliance 

Advanced Settings for File Analysis section 
on the Security Services > Anti-Malware and Reputation page.

Security Management 
appliance

At the bottom of the Management Appliance > Centralized Services > 
Security Appliances page.

Feature keys expire 

(As is standard for all features)

The file reputation or file analysis service is unreachable.

Anti-Malware

Warning

Communication with cloud services is established.

Anti-Malware

Info

A file reputation verdict changes. 

Anti-Malware

Info

File types that can be sent for analysis have changed. You 
may want to enable upload of new file types. 

Anti-Malware

Info