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Organizations Moving from CSA: Is Application Whitelisting a Viable Alternative to Antivirus?
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Since Cisco initiated the end-of-life process for the Cisco Security Agent (CSA) endpoint security solution, IT managers responsible for their organization's CSA implementation have been looking for the best ways to secure their systems. If you are looking to replace CSA, download this article to learn why you should consider application whitelisting.

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CoreTrace (CT): Why are people looking for alternatives to antivirus in the first place?

Eric Ogren (EO): It really comes down to the fact that antivirus doesn’t catch nearly enough attacks. When you look at the numbers that show even the top security products catch anywhere from 30 to 70 percent of attacks that have been around for a week, you quickly realize that they’re just not effective against new attacks. When you look more closely you see that antivirus is a very inefficient approach to controlling malware. The real value of antivirus is cleaning, not preventing.

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