Cisco Security Monitoring Analysis and Response System (CS-MARS) 6.1 is an enterprise security management system that enables threat mitigation, monitoring of host applications and network security devices, and regulatory compliance.
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Security challenges and regulatory compliance are top concerns for enterprises. Implementing CS-MARS gives the information systems professional the knowledge needed to protect a networked environment and comply with privacy regulations using CS-MARS 6.0. Learn to employ the network intelligence capabilities of CS-MARS with its traditional security event monitoring to respond to immediate security threats such as cyber attacks and suspicious activities.
This course provides explanations of CS-MARS system architecture and event processing. Attendees will use CS-MARS to investigate security incidents and mitigate threats, monitor host applications and security devices, define custom devices and log parsers, create reports, and create rules for detecting dark internet space. Specific details are in the course content outlined below.
Cisco Security MARS System Overview
CS-MARS is an advanced information security threat mitigation system that is powered to work in enterprise network environments. This introduction to the course discusses security threat mitigation practices and network security concerns. Discussion includes the benefits of MARS processing and distribution of incoming data and the resulting increase in productivity. Coverage includes deployment of single and multiple MARS appliances and gives examples of network security schema.
CS-MARS Architecture
The distributed architecture has both local controllers and global controllers which permits data privacy for local sites and a global view of the entire network. Chart the types of devices connected to local controllers and the global hierarchy. Coverage includes the scalability of multiple layers and the ability to isolate functions performed by one or more local controllers. Details covered are raw data handling, aggregating events into sessions, rules and reporting tools
Configure CS-MARS
Plan the supporting devices for CS-MARS deployment. Follow the initial configuration steps to activate user interfaces, license, prepare for network monitoring and communication and enable system administration. Create network topology of local control zones and add local controllers.
Add Devices to Implement Monitoring and Mitigation Strategies
Determine monitoring, mitigation and regulatory compliance goals and associated devices, including routers, switches, firewalls, VPNs, network and host IDSes, anti-virus servers, host operating systems, web servers and databases.
Controller Summary Pages
View incidents and events on the dashboard, read network status charts, see hotspots and access reports.
Detect Activity
Evaluate network assets and determine attributes of threatening events. Use existing rules, modify or create new rules to detect incidents of concern and implement drop rule conditions. Manage alerts and rule reporting. Use queries, reports or the Real-time Event viewer.
Incident Investigation and Mitigation
Discuss incident generation in CS-MARS. View incidents and incident details. Manage false positive incidents. View incident path diagrams and network topology to plan mitigation. Use CS-MARS to identify mitigation points and enforcement devices. Manage cases created from existing data.
Define Custom Parsers for Devices
Devices that are not supported by CS-MARS can be monitored by creating custom parsers using device types and event types.
CS-MARS Administration and Management
Explore Cisco Security Manager integration with CS-MARS for complex deployments. Manage the increasing volume of security information, trends of more sophisticated threats, rapid rates of incidents, and fiscal constraints affecting security information departments. Leverage the local and global controller layering to identify true threats and focus efforts on containing actual risks. Discover Cisco ContextCorrelation, SureVector analysis, AutoMitigate and NetFlow.
Troubleshooting
Discuss the Cisco Security MARS Implementation Service to assist with a deployment that gives real results.
Practice
Use the CS-MARS 6.1 appliance in a practical lab. Work on actual Cisco equipment and experience the power of MARS live.
Review
Make use of the network intelligence provided by CS-MARS with minimal impact on network performance. Make use of the topology map and the discovery features in MARS. View logs of events gathered from network routers, switches, security devices, applications, hosts, servers and traffic. Understand the benefit of sessionization for real-time analysis of network security. Tune MARS to respond accurately to network activity and correctly identify threats and events of interest. Make use of the graphic interfaces and built-in reporting features that gives administrators a sophisticated network security bird's-eye-view of a distributed network. Explore the stability of the MARS logging platform for handling a high volume of events. Watch MARS identify lines of attack paths and generate mitigation strategies which saves valuable time in the analysis and remediation of threats. Customize MARS reporting features and notifications. Deploy rapidly and easily scale networks to existing infrastructure.
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Cisco Certified Network Associate Security (CCNA Security) certification required.
Cisco Certified Security Professional (CCSP) certification or equivalent required.
Experience in security engineering in networking environments using routers, switches, networking devices, firewalls, virtual private networks (VPNs), and intrusion identification systems (IDSes) recommended.
Experience using the Intrusion Prevention System (IPS) recommended.
Experience using Cisco ASA Series 5500 Adaptive Security Appliances recommended.
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