Cisco promoted MARS as an essential component of its security strategy. MARS went from a critical component of Cisco’s “self-defending networks” to the dustbin. Cisco MARS appears in the upper right hand box of the Gartner Magic Quadrant. Cisco no longer trumpets security as aggressively as it once did, preferring to talk about data centers, clouds, video, video and video. Do a Google or Bing search for MARS and you’ll see competitive ads for replacements.”]
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