CITY MANAGER AUTHORITY PROCUREMENT AWARDS
ACTION REQUESTED:
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Approve the award of Cooperative Procurement 25-055, CrowdStrike Falcon Endpoint Protection Premium Software, to CDW-G for an amount not to exceed $90,738.12 and for a one-year term
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DEPARTMENT: Information Technology
SUBMITTED BY: Jacqueline Nguyen, Director
BACKGROUND:
A key tool in the cyber security portfolio of the Information Technology (IT) Department is endpoint protection software that runs on all personal computers managed by the IT Department. The IT Department regularly researches and evaluates other potential endpoint protection software. In 2022, the IT Department deployed the endpoint protection software, CrowdStrike Falcon Endpoint Protection Premium (Falcon). It provided protections and services far beyond the solution in place at the time and continues to outperform its competitors. Falcon is the endpoint protection which includes anti-virus software for all personal computers deployed and managed by the IT Department.
Falcon critical capabilities including:
* ?Falcon Prevent
Falcon Prevent is a cloud-native, next-generation antivirus solution that protects against all types of attacks from commodity malware to sophisticated attacks - even when offline. Falcon Prevent is not solely signature based, but also assesses application behavior. It includes access to CrowdStrike's Indicator of Compromise (IOC) feed to evaluate threats against other devices.
* ?Falcon Insight Endpoint and Detection and Response (EDR)
EDR provides IT and Security personnel with actionable and timely information on the behaviors of computers and surrounding devices to understand if a perceived event or threat is normal behavior or malicious. EDR provides a path to understand the root cause of security events that involve or originate from protected computers. EDR provides automated indicators of compromise (IOC).
* ?Falcon OverWatch
OverWatch is comprised of a team of cross-disciplinary ...
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