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Cisco AMP for Endpoints Case Study

Archmill House Inc

Introduction

This case study of Archmill House Inc is based on a January 2020 survey of Cisco AMP for Endpoints customers by TechValidate, a 3rd-party research service.

“AMP for Endpoints has significantly reduced the number of false positives that we were receiving with prior solutions.”

“The speed at which it was deployed along with easy management has made it a great solution, and the onboarding process was fantastic. AMP for Endpoints is a great compliment to our other Cisco security services.”

“Fast setup and easy to manage along with very few false positives.”

Challenges

The business challenges that led the profiled company to evaluate and ultimately select Cisco AMP for Endpoints:

Invested in Cisco AMP for Endpoints because they:
- Needed to protect against advanced threats
- Needed to improve security operations efficiency
- Wanted to increase threat detection and remediation speed and accuracy
- Needed to be able to respond to incidents faster
- Needed tools to enhance their threat hunting capabilities
Considered the following vendors before selecting Cisco AMP for Endpoints:
- CrowdStrike
- Carbon Black
- BlackBerry Cylance
- SentinelOne
- TrendMicro

Use Case

The key features and functionalities of Cisco AMP for Endpoints that the surveyed company uses:

Other Cisco Security products used in addition to Cisco AMP for Endpoints:
- Threat Response
- Umbrella
- Email Security
- NGFW (Next-Generation Firewall)
Rates Cisco AMP for Endpoints on the following features:
- Antivirus feature: blocking known malware: extremely satisfied
- Exploit prevention feature: protecting against file-less malware: extremely satisfied
- Threat detection and response feature: continuous file monitoring (file and device trajectory): extremely satisfied
- Threat intelligence: ability to understand unknown threats to their environment: very satisfied
- Multi-platform/OS support: extremely satisfied

Results

The surveyed company achieved the following results with Cisco AMP for Endpoints:

Most prominent benefits realized from their investment in Cisco AMP for Endpoints:
- Realized better overall protection/prevention against file-less malware, ransomware, and other advanced threats
- Improved security operations efficiency
- Experienced faster and more accurate threat detection and remediation
Experienced the following after implementing Cisco AMP for Endpoints:
- Reduced security risks: greater than 75%
- Improved security operations efficiency: greater than 75%
- Improved threat detection and remediation speed and quality: greater than 75%
- Improved incident response speed and effectiveness: greater than 75%
- Reduced costs and increased staff productivity by simplifying complex endpoint security management tasks: greater than 75%
Cisco AMP for Endpoints helped their security team to better protect their environment from:
- Ransomware
- Drive-by-attacks
Their confidence in protecting their endpoints against malware and other threats has very significantly improved now that they have Cisco AMP for Endpoints as part of their security strategy.
Reduced their time to detection of threats by more than a week after implementing Cisco AMP for Endpoints.

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Archmill House Inc

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