Cisco Cisco ASA 5515-X with FirePOWER Services Guida Informativa

SCHEELS

Retail

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 effective 

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 

filtering, indicators of compromise (IoC), 

and prioritization flags, 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 confident 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.”

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