Chapter 8

Content Security and Advanced Threat Protection

This chapter provides details about content security, as it relates to content filtering, inspection, and advanced threat protection. This chapter explores the Web Security Appliance (WSA), Email Security Appliance (ESA), and Content Security Management Appliance (SMA). You will learn how to proxy traffic with the WSA, using transparent and explicit forwarding modes, along with how to forward traffic to and from the ESA. This chapter reviews basic configuration along with policy configuration.

Content Security Overview

It is well known that email and the web are two of the top threat vectors in security. The main reason is that email and web protocols are the most popular protocols ...

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