Insurance company California Casualty replaced its Cisco MARS security box with software-based virtual one. The insurance company ditched the Cisco Security Monitoring, Analysis and Response System. The company also phasing other tools it found to be no longer necessary. Insurance company: “Cisco wouldn’t do [a simple software] upgrade and wanted a whole new start-from-scratch license. We realized we had to do something” Other companies have been seeking alternatives in light of Cisco’s decision to end support for new third-party devices.”]
Source: https://www.csoonline.com/article/2125232/california-casualty-ditches-cisco-security-box.html