Cisco ASA 5500-X with FirePOWER Services vs CrowdStrike Falcon

• Cisco ASA 5500-X with FirePOWER Services are very well suited for most environments.
• Cisco ASA 5500-X with FirePOWER Services have a variety of networking features including NextGen, web content filtering, data analysis, high availability failover, packet inspection, context-based ACL, and other features to protect your networks.
• It's easy to deploy and manage.

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• Ransomware protection. We ran a ransomware simulation with obfuscated executables to hide malware signatures and CrowdStrike found and stopped 15 out of 15.
• Malware/adware detection. Packaged adware in official installers are instantly blocked without interfering with the install of the primary application.

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• Performance when using FirePower services make the unit slow
• Capacity of what the FirePower services need
• The interface is better than ASDM but these still need ASDM and that can be a challenge to get the correct Java version loaded
• Certain 5500-X models are different than previous versions with no switchport options

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• We get false positive detections when we run an email signature script for our users. These false positives can be a distraction. We've implemented a whitelist for those behaviors, but had some difficulty in figuring out how to configure CrowdStrike to recognize these executions since the file name and hash were always different (the executing file was firstname_lastname.exe, and that was too Vague to whitelist.

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• As an integrated appliance, we saved costs on getting other security technologies.
• It provided secure access to our remote users, saving costs and time as our users could get access to the network anywhere and anytime.
• Since we have other Cisco devices, integration was seamless.
• Integration with Active Directory meant we did not need to create addition user accounts.

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• CrowdStrike has cut our security costs.
• Has given us more insight into our end points.
• It has helped with our older PC's CPU usage.
• Cut our cost and time from managing multiple platforms down to managing one platform with better insight than what we had with multiple security platforms.

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