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Re: [c-nsp] Cisco ScanSafe, aka Cisco Cloud Web Security
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Eugeniu Patrascu)
Fri Dec 6 02:14:51 2013
In-Reply-To: <CAHgd+3_B1Z2fxjKxvZrW-e8nudJogECp6hgJLEaXZJR268rwqw@mail.gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 6 Dec 2013 09:14:36 +0200
From: Eugeniu Patrascu <eugen@imacandi.net>
To: Scott Voll <svoll.voip@gmail.com>
Cc: "nanog@nanog.org" <nanog@nanog.org>, Cisco-nsp <cisco-nsp@puck.nether.net>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
Hi,
How do you handle captive portals in hotels and other venues where you
first have to login into the portal and then have Internet access ?
This is my biggest woe right now in this regards with any kind of proxy
settings I can push to users.
Thanks,
Eugeniu
On Thu, Dec 5, 2013 at 10:05 PM, Scott Voll <svoll.voip@gmail.com> wrote:
> We currently use CCWS (previously ScanSafe) with the Anyconnect client.
> Nice solution. Whether your in the office or remoting from a Starbucks,
> the traffic is always proxied. We went with the solution because of a
> couple reasons:
>
> 1. with multiple egress points on the corporate network, we didn't want to
> be down if we lost a proxy server.
>
> 2. corporate laptops whether in the office or at Starbucks would still be
> proxied. This helps limit our virus and malware infections. and provides
> HR reports.
>
> 3 split tunneling would be an option because the traffic doesn't have to
> come back to your internal proxy.
>
> 4. our remote home office bandwidth is very limited, so using the cloud it
> provided for better use of that bandwidth.
>
> all and all it's a good solution. I'm not going to tell you that we have
> not had any issues, but with any new solution, there will be a couple
> bruises along the way.
>
> YMMV
>
> Scott
>
>
>
> On Wed, Dec 4, 2013 at 7:53 AM, Herro91 <herro91@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > I'm doing some research on the Cisco Cloud Web Security offering, also
> > known as ScanSafe.
> >
> > Has anyone on the lists explored Cisco's ScanSafe SaaS offering, now
> called
> > Cisco Cloud Web Security - as a means of providing protection in the
> cloud
> > that would potentially negate the requirement to have a full tunnel (i.e.
> > allow split tunneling) for teleworkers?
> >
> >
> > Thanks!
> >
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