Securing Hosts Using Cisco Security Agent (HIPS) takes a task-oriented approach to teaching the skills to deploy, configure, and administer CSA to protect server and workstation hosts.

Course Objectives

• Identify the platforms and infrastructure that support CSA and the CSA MC
• Describe the CSA architecture and the CSA MC
• Install CSA with a default Agent kit
• Create host groups and build Agent kits
• Define application classes and associate them with the appropriate security policies
• Configure security policies and rules
• Configure system correlation rules for CSA
• Identify which rules are for Windows, UNIX, and both platforms
• Perform data analysis and create policies with CSA Analysis
• Manage the Event Log and generate reports