Cisco Security MARS Overview
Cisco Security MARS is an appliance-based, all-inclusive solution that provides superior insight into and control of your existing security deployment. Part of Cisco's security management suite, Cisco Security MARS empowers your security and network organizations to identify, manage, and counter security threats. It works with your existing network and security investments to identify, isolate, and recommend precise removal of offending elements. Cisco Security MARS also helps maintain internal policy compliance and can be an integral part of your overall regulatory compliance solution.

Security and network administrators face numerous challenges, including:

- Security and network information overload
- Poor attack and fault identification, prioritization, and response
- Increases in attack sophistication, velocity, and remediation costs
- Compliance and audit requirement adherence
- Security staff and budget constraints
- Cisco Security MARS addresses these challenges by:
- Integrating network intelligence to modernize correlation of network anomalies and security events
- Visualizing validated incidents and automating investigation
- Mitigating attacks by taking full advantage of your existing network and security infrastructure
- Monitoring systems, network, and security operations to aid in compliance
- Delivering a scalable appliance that is easy to deploy and use with the lowest total cost of ownership (TCO)

Cisco Security MARS transforms raw network and security data into intelligence that can be used to subvert valid security incidents and maintain compliance. Cisco Security MARS enables operators to centralize, detect, mitigate, and report on priority threats using the network and security devices already deployed in your infrastructure.