Thursday, September 27, 2018

Cisco Web Security Appliance (WSA) S190 - Web GUI

9/27/2018 Cisco, Security

Cisco^® IronPort Web Security Appliance (WSA) offers malware protection, application visibility and control, acceptable use policy controls, insightful reporting and secure mobility to enterprise network.

The Cisco IronPort WSA is a forward proxy that can be deployed in either Explicit mode (proxy automatic configuration [PAC] files, Web Proxy Auto-Discovery [WPAD], browser settings) or Transparent mode (Web Cache Communication Protocol [WCCP], Policy-Based Routing [PBR], load balancers). WCCP-compatible devices, such as Cisco Catalyst® 6000 Series Switches, Cisco ASR 1000 Series Aggregation Services Routers, Cisco Integrated Services Routers, and Cisco ASA 5500-X Series Next-Generation Firewalls, reroute web traffic to the Cisco WSA. The Cisco WSA can proxy HTTP, HTTPS, SOCKS, native FTP, and FTP over HTTP traffic to deliver additional capabilities such as data-loss prevention, mobile user security, and advanced visibility and control. Cisco provides hardware appliances (Cisco S690, Cisco S690X, Cisco S680, Cisco S390, Cisco S380, Cisco S190, Cisco S170) and virtual appliances WSAV (S000v, S100v, S300v) for different requirements. In this post, S190 will be used to show the how web gui looks like.
The Cisco S190 appliance is typically installed as an additional layer in the network between clients and the Internet.

	Model	Disk Space	RAID Mirroring	Memory	CPUs
SMB and Branch	S190	1.2TB (2x600 GB SAS)	Yes (RAID 1)	8 GB, DDR4	1 x 1.9 Ghz, 6C

Depending on how you deploy the appliance, you may or may not need a Layer 4 (L4) switch or a WCCP router to direct client traffic to the appliance.
Deployment options include: