Table Of Contents

About this Guide

Audience and Scope

Organization and Use

Related Documentation

Obtaining Documentation and Submitting a Service Request

About this Guide

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Refer to the following sections to understand the audience, topics, and conventions in this guide, and the titles of related documents.

Audience and Scope

Written for network managers and administrators, this guide describes how to install, enable, and configure Cisco Secure Desktop (CSD) on a Cisco ASA 5500 Series security appliance to provide a safe computing environment through which a variety of remote access computers can connect.

Organization and Use

Table 1 describes the contents of this guide.

Table 1 Document Organization 

Topic	Purpose
Introduction	Describes the CSD capabilities, and how to access the Secure Desktop Manager, the browser-enabled interface for CSD administrators.
Installing and Enabling CSD	Describes how to obtain the CSD software, and install or upgrade it.
Configuring Host Scan	Describes how to return the results of he following endpoint scans to the security appliance: •Registry entries, filenames, process names •Antispyware, antivirus, and personal firewall applications and updates This chapter also describes how to configure enforcement of antispyware, antivirus, and personal firewall applications and updates.
Tutorial: Assigning Prelogin Criteria to Policies	Provides examples showing how to assign prelogin criteria to CSD policies and assign settings to them.
Details: Assigning Prelogin Criteria to Policies	Details how to specify endpoint criteria to be gathered between the endpoint connection to the security appliance and its return of the login prompt.
Assigning Secure Desktop, Cache Cleaner, and Detection Settings to Policies	Details how to enable or disable Secure Desktop, Cache Cleaner, keystroke logger detection, and host emulator detection for each policy and assign settings for these CSD components.
Using Match Criteria to Configure Dynamic Access Policies	Describes how to match Host Scan results, CSD policies, basic Host Scan entries, or any combination of these criteria with any other policy attributes you specify to grant access rights to users dynamically.
Customizing User Banners and Backgrounds	Describes how to change the Secure Desktop background, text color, and dialog banners.
Logging	Describes how to change the severity of the CSD events logged at the user endpoint.
CSD File Reference	Describes the CSD files on the security appliance and the endpoint.

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Note The Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs) in previous versions of this guide are now combined with others on http://supportwiki.cisco.com.

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Related Documentation

For more information, refer to the following documentation:

•Release Notes for Cisco Secure Desktop

•Cisco ASA 5500 Series Release Notes

•Cisco ASDM Release Notes

•Regulatory Compliance and Safety Information for the Cisco ASA 5500 Series

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