The Securing Hosts Using Cisco Security Agent exam 642-513 HIPS is one of the exams associated with the Cisco Certified Security Professional certification. Candidates can prepare for this exam by taking the HIPS v3.0 course. This exam tests a candidate's knowledge and ability to describe, configure, and verify the Cisco Security Agent product.
Exam Topics
The following information provides general guidelines for the content likely to be included on the exam. However, other related topics may also appear on any specific delivery of the exam. In order to better reflect the contents of the exam and for clarity purposes the guidelines below may change at any time without notice.
Describe and deploy the CSA and CSA MC products
Explain the concept of network defense in depth
Describe Cisco Security Agent architecture
Describe the life cycle of an attack
Explain how Cisco Security Agent protects against attacks
Identify the CSA MC and CSA system requirements
Identify the administration workstation requirements
Install the CSA MC
Configure basic settings on the CSA MC
Install the CSA using a default group
Use CSA MC to configure groups, manage hosts, and build policies
Describe various components of the menu bar and its function in the CSA MC interface
Create, save, and delete data on the CSA MC
Create groups to ease host management and security policy deployment
Build Agent kits for the newly created groups
View host status and modify host configuration
Distribute software updates to hosts
Discuss components of a policy
Configure policies and rule modules
Use CSA MC to configure rules
Describe the basics of rule construction and functionality
Configure rules common to Windows and UNIX systems
Configure Windows-Only rules
Configure UNIX-Only rules
Describe the individual rules you can add to your policies that allow CSA MC to categorize processes and correlate events across multiple systems
Describe and configure the system API Control Rule
Describe and configure the Network Shield Rule
Describe and configure the Buffer Overflow Control Rule
Describe and configure the Email Worm Protection Rule module
Describe and configure the Installation Applications Policy
Describe and configure Global Event Correlation
Define application classes and work with variables
Explain the use of application classes in creating security policies
Discuss the preconfigured application classes included in the CS AMC
Configure a static application class
Create a dynamic application class and an application-builder rule
Discuss how events sets are used to ease administration of security policies
Configure data, file and network address sets
Create registry, COM component and network services sets
Use the COM extraction utility to gather PROGIDs and CLSIDs for the software installed on a system
Configure Query Settings variables to be used with Query rules
Use CSA Analysis and define and generate reports
Understand and configure application deployment investigation
Understand and configure product associations for application deployment investigation
Configure and run application deployment reports
Understand and configure application behavior investigation
Understand and use behavior analysis reports
Import and use behavior analysis rule modules
Explain the features of the Event Log and Event Monitor
Configure filtering of events for logging, reports, and alerts
Create event-based alerts
Generate reports on events selected by sorting criteria
Recommended Training
Securing Hosts Using Cisco Security Agent (HIPS) is the recommended training for this exam.
Courses listed are offered by Cisco Learning Partners, the only authorized source for Cisco IT training delivered exclusively by Certified Cisco Instructors. Check the List of Learning Partners for a Cisco Learning Partner near you.
Additional Resources
A variety of Cisco Press titles may be available for this exam. These titles can be purchased through the Cisco Marketplace Bookstore, directly from Cisco Press.
