Cisco Secure Firewall Management Center (formerly Firepower Management Center) vs CrowdStrike Falcon

• Maintain centralized repository of security policies
• Configure network access and advanced security policies in a single tool
• Manage large number of devices

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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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• Areas like Computer Security need a console to view events.
• The different support areas would be greatly benefited if they managed to have consoles and alerts that told them where to mitigate the risks.
• The scope of areas such as Monitoring and Dispatch have a broad vision with tools such as applying the necessary filters for your environment.

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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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• We lost some features like servers load balancing.
• But, we got NGFW with a very powerful IPS on one box with a single management interface. We also saved money and data center space from buying multiple boxes (one for IPS and the other as Firewall).
• We also saved team time and multiple devices management, and we got the benefits of a single vendor providing support.

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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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