The Cisco ASA 5500 Series Content Security and Control Security Services Module (CSC-SSM) combines comprehensive malware protection with advanced traffic and message compliance for Cisco ASA Family of multifunction security appliances. The result is a powerful solution that provides strong protection and control for business network communications, stops network threats including viruses, worms, spyware, spam and phishing, controls unwanted visitors and web content while reducing the operational costs and complexity of deploying and managing multiple point solutions.

Product Licensing
Cisco ASA 5500 Series CSC-SSM provides licensing options to enable organizations to customize the features and capabilities to each group's needs with features that include advanced content services and increased user capacity.

Feature Licenses

Optional Plus Licenses
The Cisco ASA 5500 Series CSC-SSM ships with a default feature set that provides antivirus, anti-spyware, and file blocking services. A premium Plus license is available for additional capabilities including anti-spam, anti-phishing, URL blocking/filtering and content control services. The optional Plus pack feature license is available for an additional charge for each CSC-SSM.

Platform Licenses

Optional User Upgrades
Businesses can extend the user capacity of the Cisco ASA 5500 Series CSC-SSM by purchasing and installing additional user licenses. By default, the CSC-SSM-10 and CSC-SSM-20 models ship with 50 and 500 users, respectively. Several tiers of user license upgrades are available, including 100-, 250-, and 500-user packs for the CSC-SSM-10 and 750-and 1,000-user packs for the CSC-SSM-20.

Plus license
Adds anti-spam, anti-phishing, URL blocking/filtering and content control