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Cisco won't add new security devices to MARS

Cisco has finally publicly acknowledged it won't add support for new third-party devices to its security information and event monitoring appliance, ending months of speculation about the future of its Monitoring, Analysis and Response System. Some claim it's the beginning of the end for MARS as a multi-vendor SIEM device. MARS is used by about 4,000 customers and Cisco is regarded as the largest SIEM vendor.

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  • Winners of Cisco Subnet and Microsoft Subnet contests Submitted by Cisco Subnet on Thu, 11/05/2009

    Posted by Cisco Subnet editor Julie Bort: We are tickled to announce the winners of our October giveaways. The grand prize from Cisco Subnet of a free training course from Global Knowledge goes to David Kotlerewsky (pictured), systems engineer for InterVision Systems Technologies Inc. David thinks he'll use his free training for a class that will get him closer to his CCIE.

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  • Brad Reese on Cisco

    Impressing Skype's buyout investors, Mike Volpi bragged he could get Cisco's top stars to jump ship by Brad Reese

    The New York Times is reporting that Skype's cofounders Niklas Zennstrom and Janus Friis will become significant owners of the investment group buying a 65% interest in Skype from eBay for approximately $1.9 billion in cash (which values Skype at $2.75 billion). Simultaneously, it now appears Mike Volpi is being kicked to the curb by the very same investment group he organized to purchase Skype from eBay! In a fascinating development, copies of Mike Volpi's email messages that appeared... 11

  • Networking Geek to Geek

    MIB Walking 101 by Jimmy Ray Purser

    Network management is sometimes as difficult as trying to eat undercooked beef in front of guest. The more you chew the bigger and worse it gets. Of course that's when folks want to ask me a thousand questions... Like anything, lets take it small first and then work our way up to the bigger stuff. First off, forget all of the GUI stuff, trend markers and way cool pie charts. Understanding the underlying design of all network management tools will take you from basic to alpha geek status in... 1

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    New Security Features in Cisco IOS 15.0 by Jamey Heary

    Cisco's newly released ISR G2 routers come with a new update to their software features in IOS version 15.0. I will focus on describing some of the new security features that are found in the IOS 15.0 security feature set. It is important to note that IOS 15.0 will work on older ISR models as well as the new ISR G2 platforms. This is a straightforward list with a description of each new feature. IOS IPS Lightweight Signatures – Cisco has developed significantly more efficient signature... 5

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    Cisco ISR G2s - Just Another 3700-series? by Michael Morris

    Almost a year ago, Cisco released a huge marketing blitz titled the "Data Center Big Bang". I commented at the time that this was a big YYYYYAAAAAWWWWNNNNN. Lots of hype, not much substance. Last week's Cisco ISR G2 routers release didn't strike me as a huge marketing blitz; I actually felt the marketing was rather average this time. No huge announcements, webinars, e-mail assaults, or predictions of world peace with this new Cisco product. Just a standard product rollout with... 9

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Cisco patches two DoS holes in Unified Communications Manager (Posted by Cisco Subnet editor Julie Bort while Jim Duffy is on vacation.) Cisco today issued a software patch for its Unified Communications Manager which contains two DoS vulnerabilities that involve the processing of SIP packets. Each vulnerability is triggered by a malformed SIP message that could cause a critical process to fail, resulting in the disruption of voice services. All...

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