The Cisco® Security Agent Starter Bundle is a low-cost entry point for initial server and desktop deployments within an enterprise, or for small to medium size business. It contains:
CiscoWorks VPN/Security Management Solution (VMS) Basic 2.2
CiscoWorks Management Center for Cisco Security Agents 4.01
One Cisco Security Agent for servers
10 Cisco Security Agents for desktops
Incremental agents can be purchased for use with the Cisco Security Agent Starter Bundle. CiscoWorks VPN/Security Management Solution (VMS) Basic can also manage up to five Cisco network devices, including Cisco Intrusion Detection System (IDS) and Cisco PIX® appliances.
Benefits
Aggregates and extends multiple endpoint security functions—the Cisco Security Agent provides host-based intrusion prevention, distributed firewall, malicious mobile code protection, operating system integrity assurance, and audit log consolidation, all within a single agent
Provides protection against entire classes of attacks, including port scans, buffer overflows, Trojan horses, malformed packets, malicious HTML requests, and e-mail worms
Offers "Zero Update" prevention for known and unknown attacks
Provides industry-leading protection for servers and desktops, and for UNIX and Windows
Provides application-specific protection for Web servers and databases
Open and extensible architecture offers the ability to define and enforce security according to corporate policy
Offers an enterprise scalable architecture—the Cisco Security Agent is scalable to thousands of agents per manager
Provides integrated management with Cisco Secure IDS, Cisco VPN, and Cisco PIX security devices
Integrates with Cisco VPN via "Are You There" (AYT)
