Description
Application Visibility and Control
The Cisco ESA C170 Email Security Appliance is a high-performance email security solution that provides advanced threat protection, email encryption, and spam filtering capabilities. One of its key features is application visibility and control, which allows organizations to monitor and manage the use of various applications within their email environment.
Here are some of the ways in which the ESA C170 provides application visibility and control:
- Application detection: The ESA C170 can detect and identify various email applications, such as webmail clients, instant messaging, and file-sharing applications, that are being used within the email environment. This capability allows administrators to understand how these applications are being used and to identify any potential security risks.
- Application monitoring: The ESA C170 can monitor the use of applications within the email environment, providing visibility into who is using which applications and how often. This information can be used to identify potential security risks, such as employees using unapproved applications or sharing sensitive data through unsecured channels.
- Application control: The ESA C170 allows administrators to control the use of various applications within the email environment. For example, administrators can block access to certain webmail clients or instant messaging applications, or restrict file-sharing to approved channels. This capability allows organizations to enforce security policies and minimize the risk of data loss or theft.
- Advanced malware protection: The ESA C170 includes advanced malware protection capabilities that can detect and prevent the spread of malware through email attachments or links. This protection helps to prevent the spread of viruses, ransomware, and other malicious code that can be transmitted through email applications.
Integration with Other Security Solutions
The ESA-C170-K9 Cisco ESA C170 Email Security Appliance is designed to provide advanced email security features to protect against a wide range of email-based threats. It also supports integration with other security solutions to provide a comprehensive security posture across the organization. Here are some ways in which the ESA-C170-K9 can integrate with other security solutions:
- SIEM Integration: The ESA-C170-K9 appliance can be integrated with Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) solutions, which collect and analyze security events from different sources across the organization. This integration allows security administrators to centrally monitor and analyze email security events alongside other security events and quickly identify and respond to potential threats.
- Threat Intelligence Integration: The ESA-C170-K9 appliance can be integrated with threat intelligence platforms that provide real-time threat intelligence feeds. This integration enhances the effectiveness of the email security solution by using up-to-date threat intelligence to identify and block email-based threats, including spam, phishing, and malware.
- Endpoint Protection Integration: The ESA-C170-K9 appliance can be integrated with endpoint protection solutions that provide additional layers of protection against threats that may bypass email security defenses. This integration allows the ESA-C170-K9 to share threat intelligence and coordinate incident response with endpoint protection solutions.
- Cloud Email Security Integration: The ESA-C170-K9 appliance can be integrated with cloud email security solutions, such as Cisco Cloud Email Security or Office 365 Advanced Threat Protection. This integration provides additional layers of security for cloud-based email services and enhances protection against advanced threats, such as ransomware and zero-day attacks.
High Availability Features
The Cisco ESA C170 Email Security Appliance is a high-performance email security solution designed to provide advanced threat protection, email encryption, and spam filtering capabilities. In addition to its robust security features, the ESA C170 also includes several high availability features that ensure continuous availability and reliability of email services. Here are some of the high availability features of the ESA C170:
- Active/Standby clustering: The ESA C170 supports active/standby clustering, which enables automatic failover in the event of a hardware or software failure. With this feature, a secondary appliance can take over email processing if the primary appliance becomes unavailable, ensuring that email services remain available and uninterrupted.
- Load balancing: The ESA C170 supports load balancing, which distributes email traffic across multiple appliances to ensure optimal performance and availability. With load balancing, the email traffic is evenly distributed across multiple appliances, so that no single appliance is overwhelmed with traffic, and there is no single point of failure.
- Redundant power supplies: The ESA C170 includes redundant power supplies, which provide backup power in case of a power supply failure. With redundant power supplies, the appliance can continue to function even if one power supply fails, ensuring that email services remain available and uninterrupted.
- RAID support: The ESA C170 supports redundant array of independent disks (RAID), which provides fault tolerance and redundancy for data storage. With RAID, data is stored across multiple disks, so that if one disk fails, data can still be retrieved from the other disks.
General Information
- Manufacturer: Cisco
- Manufacturer Part Number: ESA-C170-K9
- Product Series: C
- Product Model: C170
- Product Name: ESA C170 Email Security Appliance with Software
- Product Type: Network Security/Firewall Appliance
Technical Information
- Functionality Email Security
- Firewall Protection Firewall Authentication
- Firewall Protection Content Filtering
- Firewall Protection Anti-spam
- Firewall Protection Antivirus
- Firewall Protection Malware Protection
Interfaces/Ports
- Total Number of Ports: 2
- DSL Port No
- USB: Yes
- Serial Port: Yes
- Modem No
- PoE (RJ-45) Port No
- Management Port No
- Number of Network (RJ-45) Ports: 2
Network & Communication
- Ethernet Technology: Gigabit Ethernet
- Network Standard: 10/100/1000Base-T
Wireless Specifications
- Wireless LAN No
Management & Protocols:
- Manageable: Yes
Memory
- Standard Memory: 4 GB
Storage
- Hard Drive Capacity: 500 GB
Power Description
- Input Voltage: 220 V AC
- Input Voltage: 110 V AC
- Power Source: Power Supply
