Compare and Decide - Is it time to back to earth from MARS?

Thursday, November 5, 2009 by Pam Casale
Thinking about augmenting or replacing Cisco MARS with a SIEM solution?

Make one easy decision for Intellitactics enterprise security management appliance. Here's a list of all the Cisco devices we monitor. We start with Cisco MARS and move through your network.

Cisco MARS:

We support the ‘alert’ generated from the analysis policy created on MARS by the user - Intellitactics sees this as a data stream of its own. This isn't the original event stream from MARS which had its own format. 

Before you get to the following list of devices supported by MARS and the Intellitactics  SIEM Solution, here's another important fact:

Cisco had opted to support these device using protocols like snmp, but we opted to develop a different integration like a JDBC connection because it gives our SIEM solutions greater flexibility in the long run AND the ability to acquire more data providing greater value to our customers. 

Cisco Aironet Wireless Access Points

Cisco Catalyst Switches

Cisco Security Agent

Cisco VPN Concentrator

Cisco Content Engine

Cisco Content Switch

Cisco Global Site Selector

Cisco Intrusion Prevention System

Cisco IOS (Routers & Smart Switches)

Cisco IronPort Web Proxy

Cisco MDS (Multilayer SAN Switches)

Cisco ASA/FWSM/PIX

Cisco Secure ACS (Access Control System)

Cisco Tacacs+ (this support is across several Cisco networking products listed above)

Cisco UBR (Universal Broadband Router cards)

Cisco Unified Call Manager

Cisco Wireless LAN Controller


Here's something to think about: For any given device category (eg. firewall) we support many more products than what Cisco lists as supported devices for MARS. Slip SAFE into place right next to MARS and get everything you've been missing like hundreds of compliance reports, visual analysis for finding root cause, monitoring access controls and applications with one simple appliance.

Want to learn more about other ways we get more from your logs? Comment here and ask about the extensive SIEM solution device list.


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