Cisco Security Agent is the leading behaviour-based endpoint security product. ClamAV™ is widely used on UNIX or Linux e-mail servers, scrubbing the e-mail data flows for malware and protecting millions of Windows desktop systems. Cisco Security Agent Version 6.0 now includes the open source ClamAV antivirus engine to protect Microsoft Windows desktops at no additional cost. This combination offers a complete endpoint protection solution that accurately identifies malware, prevents malware execution, and quarantines or deletes malware from the system.

ClamAV is an open source product, providing strong virus scanning and detection capabilities. The ClamAV database includes more than 200,000 unique signatures, covering many different types of malware: trojans, downloaders (file droppers), bots, spyware, worms, and others. ClamAV has a reputation for very fast response time when new viruses are released. As a result, it scores well in public antivirus comparisons.

Cisco Security Agent is an enterprise-class, centrally managed endpoint protection agent. Agents report to a central management server, the Management Centre for Cisco Security Agents. The Management Centre provides the administrative interface, allowing security configuration changes, event analysis, granular policy creation, and report generation.
Agents poll the Management Centre for Cisco Security Agents periodically for security updates. As part of this polling process, the Management Centre distributes daily signature updates to each of the agents. Because of Cisco Security Agent’s demonstrated best-in-class protection against new and day-zero malware, agents are protected even if they are out of the office and cannot receive updates immediately. Organisations will find that relying on Cisco Security Agent day-zero protection will allow them to more sensibly manage their antivirus and patching updates.

The ClamAV virus scanning engine is packaged with Cisco Security Agent as a single installable agent. It is controlled from the Management Centre for Cisco Security Agents console, providing a true single-agent/single-console endpoint security solution.
As a core component of the Cisco Self-Defending Network, Cisco Security Agent also links endpoint security to network security:

• Intrusion prevention system (IPS) and firewall collaboration enhances detection and containment of threats.
• Endpoint enforcement for Network Admission Control enhances security assurance.
• Per-application quality-of-service bandwidth prioritisation increases availability of point-of-sale applications.

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