• Channel Partner/Resellers pursuing the Advanced Security Specialization.
• Enterprise customers that need to centralize configuration management, policy management, and monitoring.
• IT professionals interested in professional advancement and CCSP certification.
• Anyone wishing to evaluate Cisco Security Manager & MARS.

• Certified as a Cisco CCSP or equivalent knowledge.
• At least 6 months of hands-on experience configuring Cisco routers and security products.
• Familiarity with implementing network security policies and these networking components and concepts.

• Import device configurations into Cisco Security Manager.
• Create and manage global, group and individualized device policies.
• Create a network map appropriate to your topology in MapView.
• Manage VPN Routers including site-to-site and DMVPN.
• Build and manage SSL VPN policies on routers and ASA 5500 series firewalls.
• Create and manage firewall-specific policies for PIX 500 and ASA 5500 series firewalls.
• Configure IPS sensors including centralized signature management.
• Use CSM to manage Catalyst 6500 switches and 7600 Internet routers and their service modules.
• Create automation scripts with FlexConfig.
• Configure and use the workflow features for change management.
• Describe the MARS solution, features and functions in context to the issues of security incidents and security information in an enterprise network.
• Cover the basic physical installation process.
• Add Cisco security and network devices into MARS appliance.
• Add Non-Cisco security and network devices into MARS appliance.
• Configure security devices to generate interesting events that constitute an attack scenario and have MARS collect the interesting events for incident investigation.
• Discuss attack mitigation and false positive confirmation in context to MARS appliance.
• Configure appliance to perform Incident Investigation and attack mitigation.
• Explain how to create, view and save a long-duration query and reports on the MARS appliance.
• Configure the MARS appliance to send an alert.
• Describe and configure rules that detect interesting patterns of network activity.
• Use management features in the MARS appliance to assign event, addressing, service and user information.
• Configure hardware maintenance chores like viewing audit trail, data archiving, hot swapping hard drives, upgrading software on MARS appliance.
• Provide overview of MARS Global Controller.
• Provide overview of Log Parser Templates

Fast Lane’s unique Cisco Security Management & Monitoring class is a custom offering that combines both elements of the Cisco Security Management Suite.

Students will learn scalable, policy-based configuration management with Cisco Security Manager 3.1, and enterprise monitoring and Security Threat Mitigation with the Cisco Secure MARS appliance. The Cisco Security Management Suite is an integral part of the Cisco Self-Defending Network architecture.