Security Threat Mitigation and Response: Understanding Cisco Security MARS

Chapter 2. Role of CS-MARS in Your Network

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This chapter helps you to understand important information related to the functions and deployment of CS-MARS in your network. You learn the following:

• The Self-Defending Network and the Expanding Role of CS-MARS

• CS-MARS as an STM Solution

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CS-MARS plays two major roles in your network’s security solution. The first is as a critical component that enhances the self-defending network (SDN). The SDN increases the level of protection in your network by enabling additional communication between devices. The second role of CS-MARS is as a security threat mitigation (STM) system that enables substantially quicker and more accurate information for threat response. In addition ...