Welcome to the Secure Web Appliance

About Secure Web Appliance

The Cisco Secure Web Appliance intercepts and monitors internet traffic and applies policies to help keep your internal network secure from malware, sensitive data loss, productivity loss, and other internet-based threats. It acts as a proxy server, intercepting web requests from users and scanning the requested web content for potential threats such as malware, viruses, and phishing attempts. Cisco Secure Web Appliance uses various security technologies such as URL filtering, antivirus scanning, reputation-based filtering, and advanced malware protection to ensure the security of web traffic.

Build Number and Release Date

Build Number: 15.5.0-816

Release Date: May 27, 2026

New Features in AsyncOS 15.5.0-816

The following features are introduced for this release:

Feature

Description

Talos URS

Talos URS (URL Rating Service) is a URL categorization service fully integrated into the Cisco Secure Web Appliance (SWA). When the Beaker web reputation engine encounters a URL that is not yet categorized during web traffic inspection, it forwards the query to Talos URS for classification. If Talos URS has the URL pre-classified in its cache, it immediately returns the category and score to the proxy, which then enforces the configured policies accordingly. If the URL is not found in the Talos URS cache, the uncategorized domains are uploaded to the Service Request (SR). In the backend, outside of the SWA, these domains are categorized using Talos intelligence and subsequently delivered to the SWA through notification updates. The Cisco Secure Web Appliance (SWA) retrieves the latest notification update during its next scheduled update cycle. Following this update, URLs that were previously uncategorized are categorized and subject to policy enforcement.

This integration ensures timely and accurate URL categorization to support effective web filtering and security policy application within the Cisco Secure Web Appliance environment.

New/modified commands: talosursconfig

Note

 

Changes made through the talosursconfig CLI command take effect immediately without requiring an explicit commit. However, these changes do not persist through or after a software upgrade of the Secure Web Appliance (SWA). You must reapply any desired configuration changes using talosursconfig after the appliance has completed the upgrade and is back online.

Upgrade Paths


Note


Before upgrading to this release, save copy of the appliance configuration file to a location other than the appliance.


You can upgrade to the 15.5.0-816 HP1 release from the following versions:

  • 15.5.0-710

  • 15.0.1-004

Known and Fixed Issues

Log in to the Cisco Bug Search Tool using your Cisco account credentials to view the list of fixed bugs.

Related Documentation

Support

Cisco Support Community

Cisco Support Community is an online forum for Cisco customers, partners, and employees. It provides a place to discuss general web security issues as well as technical information about specific Cisco products. You can post topics to the forum to ask questions and share information with other Cisco users.

Access the Cisco Support Community for web security and associated management:

https://supportforums.cisco.com/community/5786/web-security

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