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544CHAPTER 24: CONFIGURING SODA ENDPOINT SECURITY FOR A WX SWITCH

SODA Endpoint Security Support on WX Switches

„Malicious Code Protection – Detects and blocks keystroke loggers that capture usernames and passwords, Trojans that create back-door user accounts, and Screen Scrapers that spy on user activity.

The Malicious Code module integrates a Virtual Keyboard function that requires users to input confidential information such as passwords using the Virtual Keyboard when accessing specific Web sites, to protect against hardware keystroke loggers. This module uses a combination of signatures for known exploits and behavioral detection to protect against unknown threats.

„Cache Cleaner – Ensures that Web browser information, such as cookies, history, auto-completion data, stored passwords, and temporary files are erased or removed upon termination of the user’s session, inactivity timeout, or closing of the browser.

„Connection Control – Controls network connections based on Domain, IP address, Port, and Service. For example, Connection Control can prevent a Trojan from sending out a confidential document, downloaded legitimately through an SSL VPN tunnel, to a malicious e-mail server (SMTP) using a second network tunnel.

„Adaptive Policies – Sense the type and location of device and adjusts access based on endpoint parameters such as IP range, registry keys, and DNS settings

The SODA endpoint security modules are configured through Sygate On-Demand Manager (SODA Manager), a Windows application. SODA Manager is used to create a SODA agent, which is a Java applet that is downloaded by client devices when they attempt to gain access to the network. Once downloaded, the SODA agent runs a series of security checks to enforce endpoint security on the client device.

WX switches support SODA endpoint security functionality in the following ways:

„SODA agent applets can be uploaded to a WX switch, stored there, and downloaded by clients attempting to connect to the network.

„The WX switch can ensure that clients run the SODA agent security checks successfully prior to allowing them access to the network.

„Different sets of security checks can be downloaded and run, based on the SSID being used by the client.