Cisco FirePOWER Consulting Services

Jan 26
2015

Tomasz J
sourcefire, cisco, security
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What is Cisco FirePOWER / Sourcefire?

Sourcefire or FirePOWER is 100% dedicated to cybersecurity technologies. Trusted for more than a decade, FirePOWER epitomizes security innovation, intelligence and agile end-to-end protection. With solutions from a next-generation network security platform to advanced malware protection, Sourcefire provides customers with Agile Security™ that is as dynamic as the real world it protects and the attackers against which it defends.

Cisco and Sourcefire

Below are some new terms for Cisco Sourcefire products

. Sourcefire Product Names	New Cisco Names
FirePOWER (ASA w/FP pre-installed) FirePOWER (FP add-on to ASA)	Cisco ASA with FirePOWER Services FirePOWER Services for Cisco ASA
Sourcefire Defense Center Series	Cisco FireSIGHT Management Center
FirePOWER Appliance	Cisco FirePOWER Appliance
FirePOWER 7K Series (NGIPS)	Cisco FirePOWER 7000 Series Appliances
FirePOWER 8K Series (NGIPS)	Cisco FirePOWER 8000 Series Appliances
AMP for FirePOWER	Cisco Advanced Malware Protection for Networks
FireAMP (for endpoints, Mac, PC, mobile virtual)	Cisco Advanced Malware Protection for XXX (Endpoints, Mac, PC, Mobile, Virtual)
Sourcefire SSL Appliance Series (OEM - BlueCoat)	Cisco SSL Appliance
FirePOWER Licenses (IPS, AMP, URL)	Cisco FirePOWER Services Subscriptions Cisco FirePOWER Services Subscription for IPS and Apps Cisco FirePOWER Services Subscription for AMP Cisco FirePOWER Services Subscription for URL Cisco FirePOWER Appliance Subscriptions Cisco FirePOWER Appliance Subscription for IPS and Apps Cisco FirePOWER Appliance Subscription for AMP Cisco FirePOWER Appliance Subscription for URL
Virtual Platforms • FireAMP Private Cloud Virtual Appliance • Virtual IPS (on VMWare/ Redhat) • IPS for Crossbeam (3rd party HW)	Cisco Advanced Malware Protection Virtual (AMPv) Appliance Cisco NGIPSv for VMware Cisco NGIPSv for BlueCoat X-Series

Professional Consulting Services

As part of our full-service approach, ExColo provides both consulting and professional services for the Sourcefire products within our portfolio. Consulting engagements are staffed by engineers who can assess, identify, and plan the proper Sourcefire solution for your business.

Our Cisco Sourcefire consulting services include:

ASSESS: ExColo will meet with your Network Management Team to discuss your current environment and your needs.
IDENTIFY: We will identify the Sourcefire solutions that meet your goals to ensures what you purchase indeed supports your intent.
PLAN: Our team will engage to develop a plan that implements, functionally tests and optimizes the solution for your environment. We’ll schedule all tasks to fit around your schedule.
DEPLOYMENT: Deploy your Sourcefire solution quickly and effectively. Our Sourcefire experts will configure and tune devices according to a proven Sourcefire best practice methodology. We will also provide advisory services to ensure the that the solution is appropriately mapped to your unique environment and will deploy advanced policy layer techniques, reporting, alerting, and automation where available.
OPTIMIZATION: We can ensure that your implementation is optimized with your current network topology. All our security experts have extensive knowledge of network security and Sourcefire products to provide an optimization plan that makes your environment easier to support and maintain.
ARCHITECTURAL REVIEW: We can quickly assess the deployment of your current Sourcefire installation including network traffic, spans, and interface feeds to verify that they properly match up with the Sourcefire architecture. Further, we will perform a gap analysis to ensure the network, architecture, and topology are properly covered.
KNOWLEDGE TRANSFER: We take the time to go over the basic functionality, operation and maintenance of your Sourcefire solution. This empowers you to manage it day-to-day.

We can help you with answers.

Sourcefire is a powerful tool and we can help you along the way, but if you prefer to research for yourself, below are some useful links:

Sourcefire Resource and URL

Cisco Resource and URL

Cases

na8.salesforce.com/500/o

Technical Assistance Center (TAC)

tools.cisco.com/ServiceRequestTool/scm/mgmt/case

KB Articles na8.salesforce.com/knowledge/knowledgeHome. apexp

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