Cisco Cisco Web Security Appliance S690

Web Security Virtual 
Appliance enhancements

Support for VMWare ESXi 5.5 

Support for thin provisioning in ESXi 

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 

You can configure the appliance to send you alerts when the license 
expiration date approaches. 

Evaluation feature keys can now be deployed on virtual appliances 

Authentication by 
machine ID 

For deployments in Connector mode with Active Directory, this release 
introduces the option to authorize access based on device ID. 

Advanced Malware 
Protection enhancements

Advanced Malware Protection can now detect malware in archived or 
compressed files.

You can now select the interface used to communicate with an AMP 
server.

File analysis now supports analysis of additional file types. Supported 
file types are determined by the cloud service and can change at any 
time. 

When you configure the File Analysis feature, you can choose which 
file types to send for analysis, and you can choose to receive alerts 
when the options change. 

For more information, see “Which Files Can Have their Reputation 
Evaluated and Be Sent for Analysis?” in the Release Notes, and the 
chapter “File Reputation and File Analysis” in the on-line help or User 
Guide for information about supported file types and alerts. 

AAA Audit logging

AsyncOS is enhanced to standardize AAA-related logging across multiple 
logs, and to centralize them into a central log subscription. This new log 
subscription will be exportable via syslog.

Password security 
enhancements 

The following password enhancements have been introduced for 
locally-defined administrative users:

Show a password strength indicator to a user entering a new password.

Password strength is enforced by the password requirements that 
you specify.

Disallow certain words in passwords. (You upload a list of forbidden 
words to the appliance.) 

The option to generate a password by clicking a button. 

For more information, see the “Setting Password Requirements for 
Administrative Users” and “Adding Local User Accounts” sections in 
the User Guide.

Web Tracking 
enhancement 

There is a new “All Malware” option when you filter web tracking results 
by Malware Threat. 

Cisco Content Security 
Management Virtual 
Appliance

You can now manage multiple Web Security appliances with a virtual 
content security management appliance that has the same functionality as a 
physical hardware appliance.