Information Guide

SCHEELS
Retail
With Cisco ASA with
FirePOWER Services,
SCHEELS can:
Cut response time from
hours to minutes.
Detect and stop threats that evade the
anti-virus solution.
Deploy devices at new stores
in couple of hours
vs. more than a month.
IPS to deliver more integrated and eective
security. The team centrally manages
all the stores through the FireSIGHT®
Management Center. Perry Stockwell,
SCHEELS’ systems administrator, relies on
the intelligence provided through this single
pane of glass, including the events log, URL
ltering, indicators of compromise (IoC),
and prioritization ags, to strengthen the
retailer’s security posture.
“The FireSIGHT® Management Center
allows us to see what’s happening and
make changes quickly. For example we
can push out a policy change in under an
hour, when previously it would have taken
at least eight hours working through a
third party,” Stockwell explains. “And the
system will do a lot for us automatically –
blocking malicious links without us having
to do anything, preventing infected guest
machines from connecting, and restricting
user access according to policies.”
Stockwell points out that one of the
biggest security concerns for retailers right
now is ransomware. In the battle against
threats that use email as an attack vector,
Stockwell believes that employee education
on safe habits to ensure they know how
to recognize and not click on potential
malware is an important part of any security
program. Still, mistakes will happen and
threats are increasingly sophisticated so
multilayered protection is also necessary
to help defeat advanced malware. For
example, Cisco AMP for Networks has
allowed the team to catch malware
that the anti-virus solution has missed.
Stockwell elaborates, “The extra layer of
malware protection at the network with
AMP for Networks has helped us detect
malware that was attempting to call out to
a command and control server, and block it
before it was successful.”
As SCHEELS continues to expand with
a new store in Colorado and another in
Texas, the team is condent in its ability
to keep pace. “With our previous vendor,
getting devices into a store was a very
lengthy process and could take over a
month,” notes Stockwell. “Given how
quickly this initial rollout went, we feel we
have the process down and a template we
can use to get a store up and running in a
matter of hours.”
“We are always looking to improve
security everywhere,” concludes Diemert.
“Moving to Cisco saved us money and is
allowing us to apply resources to additional
areas – increasing our endpoint protection
with AMP for Endpoints is our next area
of focus.”
Products and Services
• Cisco ASA 5506-X with FirePOWER Services
• Cisco ASA 5516-X with FirePOWER Services
• Cisco ASA 5525-X with FirePOWER Services
• FireSIGHT Management Center
• Cisco FirePOWER Services in use:
- Cisco Advanced Malware Protection
(AMP) for Networks
- URL ltering
- Application Visibility and Control (AVC)
- Next-Generation IPS
For More Information
Visit www.cisco.com/go/security.
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