Introduction

Security Event Management (SEM) systems, Security Information Management (SIM) systems, and Security Threat Mitigation (STM) systems are all solutions with a primary goal of making it easier to determine when bad things are happening on your network. Ideally, the tools we use to correlate events between various network and security devices or software will detect malicious behavior before damage is done, rather than letting us know when we’ve already been compromised.

This book is intended to describe how a third-generation tool, the Cisco Security Monitoring, Analysis, and Response System (CS-MARS), performs as an STM solution.

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