In early 2016 ERM conducted a market survey to determine the best combination of solution and supplier. The company had already made significant investments in Cisco technology for routing, switching and other tasks, including its existing firewall infrastructure, so it made sense to include Cisco’s security solutions in the review.
Timms says around that time Cisco released the next generation of its Firepower next-generation firewall technology, which showed impressive capabilities in its intrusion detection system (IDS) and intrusion prevention system (IPS).
“We saw there was an opportunity there to get more visibility of the environment through the IDS/IPS offerings through the Cisco Firepower suite,” Timms says.
A decision was taken to adopt Firepower, which would see appliances installed at branch sites, and Cisco’s Advanced Malware Protection (AMP) deployed for ERM’s endpoint devices.
Work on the upgrade commenced in early 2016, with full implementation completed in under 60 days. Since then ERM has gone through one complete update of the suite’s software.
Advanced Malware Protection
