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Cisco Stealthwatch Customer Research

Stealthwatch enables my organization to:

Detect threats faster	67%
Secure more areas of the network	43%
Illuminate blind spots in the network	58%
Reduce mean time to dwell for threats on the network	30%
Accelerate incident response	55%
Improve forensic investigations	54%

Stealthwatch effective in many different ways!

How effective is Stealthwatch at the following?

Extremely Effective Effective Ineffective Uncertain

Detecting DDoS
Accelerating incident response and forensics
Detecting advanced persistent threats
Detecting insider threats / Suspicious behavior
Detecting malware / zero-day attacks

Cisco Secure Network Analytics Customer Testimonial

With Cisco Secure Network Analytics, network segmentation is now much easier with the knowledge of what applications and which devices need to communicate. Unusual network activity can also be determined very quickly.

— Engineer, Small Business Wholesale Distribution Company

Case Study: American Cancer Society

Introduction

This case study of American Cancer Society, Inc. is based on a December 2012 survey of Cisco Stealthwatch customers by TechValidate, a 3rd-party research service.

“Cisco’s Stealthwatch has made it possible to store and review past network activity in an efficient and affordable manner. Network and application behavior is now available – real-time – to a more diverse IT user base than before, dramatically improving our effectiveness and productivity.”

Challenges

Solved the following operational challenges with Stealthwatch by Cisco:
- Reduced mean-time-to-know (MTTK) root cause of network or security incidents
- Improved in network performance
- Enhanced network security posture
- Improved in application performance
- Increased efficiency in the identification of security threats
- Improved forensic analysis
- Increased correlation of user identity and activity
- Increased visibility of mobile devices
- Increased flow collection, monitoring and analysis
- Enhanced compliance posture

Use Case

Primarily uses Stealthwatch by Cisco in the following ways:
- Incident Response
- Network Forensics
- Security Forensics
- Application performance monitoring
- PCI compliance
- HIPAA compliance
Used Stealthwatch to detect or prevent the following security threats:
- Network malware or virus
- Suspicious user behavior
- Compromised host
- Network reconnaissance
Is doing the following with Stealthwatch by Cisco deployment:
- Monitoring a centralized network with a large number of satellite or retail locations
- Monitoring traffic within a data center, physical and virtual

Results

Chose Stealthwatch by Cisco for the following capabilities:
- Behavior-based security monitoring
- Real-time flow monitoring capabilities
- Internal visibility
- Forensics
- Advanced Persistent Threats (APTs)
- Auditing and compliance requirements
- Scalability
- Identity awareness
- Application Aware Network Performance Monitoring
Selected Stealthwatch by Cisco over the following vendors:
- In-house monitoring solution
- Open source solution
Meets enterprise requirements by utilizing the following Stealthwatch by Cisco benefits:
- Scalability and flexibility
- Real-time threat detection and correlation with user identity data
- Improved incident response and threat management
- Regulatory compliance
- Enterprise-wide visibility into network activity
- Deployment and support simplicity
- Enterprise-wide user monitoring
- Forensic analysis
Reduced the time it took to mitigate a security incident by > 75% by deploying Stealthwatch.
Rated the following Stealthwatch by Cisco capabilities as compared to competing vendors:
- Network Visibility: Much Better
- Network Security: Much Better
- Innovation: Much Better
- Performance Monitoring: Better
- Scalability: Better

Cisco Stealthwatch Customer Testimonial

Secure Network Analytics detected all of the threats in my organization.

— Nikolche Davchevski, Founder, Omnispoc

Cisco Stealthwatch Case Study

Through the power of Stealthwatch, Banco Pichincha is able to increase network visibility by 90%.

Introduction

This case study of Banco Pichincha is based on an August 2019 survey of Cisco Stealthwatch customers by TechValidate, a 3rd-party research service.

“Stealthwatch increased our network visibility by 90%”

Challenges

The business challenges that led Banco Pichincha to evaluate and ultimately select Cisco Stealthwatch:

A lack of visibility into a complex network with branches, IoT devices, remote employees and guests, cloud infrastructure, etc.
Protecting sensitive data
Detection of insider threats
Analyzing encrypted traffic without decryption
Real-time malware detection
Compliance requirements

Major security concerns related to cloud infrastructure are:

Data loss
Insider threats – as a result of stolen credentials or malicious employee
Abuse of cloud services leading to disruption or huge bills

Use Case

Banco Pichincha chose Stealthwatch for its:

Comprehensive visibility
Advanced security analytics using machine learning and entity modeling
Integration with other Cisco products and technologies

Results

Utilizing Stealthwatch, Banco Pichincha was able to:

Detect and prioritize advanced malicious attacks and insider threats in real-time
Investigate the source of the threat through network audit trails
Enhance value provided by other Cisco devices

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