Helix Managed MARS

Cisco’s MARS solution provides security monitoring for network and security devices, as well as host applications. It provides an end-to-end view of your network by aggregating and correlating information from all of your devices, while reducing false positives and increasing threat mitigation efforts. SDNA takes this technology a step further, by building a proactive service that actively monitors the MARS appliance, and in effect, monitors your entire network.

SDNA is among the world’s premier integrators of Cisco’s MARS technology. What we’ve done is take this knowledge and build a managed-service offering for our customers, that provides them with a complete, real-time view of all of their network activity, as well as the ability to identify, isolate, and remediate threats in the shortest amount of time, while also continually tuning the MARS appliance to eliminate false positives. What we’ve developed is the Helix Managed MARS service.

SDNA’s Helix Managed MARS service is a branded service tailored to existing Cisco Security MARS customers. SDNA security experts and analysts manage and monitor the MARS appliance providing the following benefits over your entire network:

• Monitoring of Network Activity
  • Monitoring for attacks
  • Monitoring for anomalous behavior
  • Monitoring for operational efficiency
• Incident Response / Remediation
  • Identification of attack source and destination
  • Isolation of attack to minimize network impact
  • Mitigation of attack
• Configuration Management
  • Configuration of new devices to point to the MARS appliance
  • Ongoing tuning to eliminate false positives
• Device Management
  • Ensuring that device is patched and at the latest version release
  • Ensuring that software upgrades are applied in a test environment prior to production

Having a solution to aggregate and correlate logs is a great step in developing a comprehensive security program. But if it’s not constantly and actively being monitoring and managed by qualified security experts, it isn’t serving its true purpose. And who has the time and resources for that? SDNA has developed the Helix Managed MARS service to allow you to get the most value from your MARS investment, while giving you the freedom to focus on your core business!