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The City of Phoenix in Arizona has deployed endpoint security and services from CrowdStrike including EDR , nextgeneration antivirus protection , IT hygiene and vulnerability management to protect diverse infrastructure .
City of Phoenix deploys endp services from CrowdStrike
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When Shannon Lawson , CISO at the City of Phoenix , told senior city managers about the costs associated with ransomware attacks on Atlanta and Baltimore , it was the kickstart they needed to support a comprehensive review of the city ’ s security posture .
The City of Phoenix is the municipal government for Phoenix , the fifth largest city in the US . It provides about 1,600,000 citizens with a wide range of public services including water , police , fire and housing , and employs 13,000 staff across diverse and often autonomous operational units . The city ’ s existing security infrastructure consisted of a mix of individual , mostly on-premises legacy components .
“ When evaluating the maturity of any new environment , I first look at web , email and password exposures , and especially how endpoints are being protected ,” shared the CISO . “ I needed to determine if we had all the right pieces in place .”
Focusing on validating the city ’ s choice of endpoint protection , Lawson carried out a detailed review and comparisons across the Endpoint Detection and Response ( EDR ) market .
“ I compared leading offerings with our incumbent endpoint protection product – using criteria that included ease of deployment , scope of supported systems , CPU power consumption , the overhead
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