Cisco Cisco Web Security Appliance S190 Guía Del Usuario
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AsyncOS 8.8 for Cisco Web Security Appliances User Guide
Chapter 1 Introduction to the Product and the Release
What’s New
What’s New in Cisco AsyncOS 8.6
What’s New in Cisco AsyncOS 8.5
Feature
Description
Virtual Appliance
enhancements
enhancements
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Virtual appliances can now be deployed on a KVM hypervisor.
Thin provisioning for disk storage is supported.
•
You can configure the Cisco appliance license and configuration files
to load automatically upon initial startup.
to load automatically upon initial startup.
For details, see the Cisco Content Security Virtual Appliance Installation
Guide, available from
Guide, available from
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.
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.
Web Security Virtual
Appliance enhancements
Appliance enhancements
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Support for VMWare ESXi 5.5
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Support for thin provisioning in ESXi
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Now, after the virtual appliance license expires, there is a six-month
grace period during which the appliance continues to process web
transactions, but without security services
grace period during which the appliance continues to process web
transactions, but without security services
You can configure the appliance to send you alerts when the license
expiration date approaches.
expiration date approaches.
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Evaluation feature keys can now be deployed on virtual appliances
Authentication by
machine ID
machine ID
For deployments in Connector mode with Active Directory, this release
introduces the option to authorize access based on device ID.
introduces the option to authorize access based on device ID.