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Cisco Hardware upgrade for x60 Series Appliances

Just in case you’re reading this and haven’t seen the IronPort x60 replacement programme e-mail – here goes

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Cisco IronPort E-mail Security Appliance Best Practices : Part 2

This article is a continuation from part 1 of the IronPort ‘best practices’ series.

Here I will discuss:

  • Implementing DNS blacklists
  • DLP
  • Bounce profiles
  • LDAP queries
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Cisco IronPort E-mail Security Appliance Best Practices : Part 1

I’ve cheekily phrased this blog article as a best practice guide to setting up/configuring your Cisco IronPort email security appliance. However I must make clear that the below is what I deem to be best practices/configuration. Every environment is unique so please make sure you understand what you are doing before attempting to implement any of my suggestions below. So, let’s get started! The suggestions below are in no particular order.

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URL Filtering on the Cisco IronPort ESA

This blog article will briefly describe the new URL filtering features in the updated AsyncOS 8.5.0 for the Cisco IronPort Email Security Appliance.

Before you upgrade to 8.5.5 (which is the latest OS as of this post), please check the upgrade path at the URL below:

http://www.cisco.com/c/dam/en/us/td/docs/security/esa/esa8-5-5/ESA_8-5-5_Release_Notes.pdf