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Visibility Critical to Health Care Professionals

73% of surveyed health care IT organizations rated Cisco Stealthwatch’s monitoring visibility as critical.

Cisco Stealthwatch Customer Testimonial

Stealthwatch increased visibility into network traffic that was otherwise not seen.

— IT Specialist, Fortune 500 Automotive & Transport Company

Stealthwatch critical to Federal Government for Security & Forensics Purposes

Stealthwatch’s user/host-level information is critical for?

Security	100%
Performance monitoring	25%
Forensics	100%
Compliance	25%
Network Troubleshooting	50%

Benefits of Internal Network Visibility

What do you find to be the greatest benefit of the internal visibility provided by Cisco Stealthwatch?

Earliest detection of advanced threats (APTs, malware, etc.)	43%
Faster Incident response	62%
Forensics	58%
Monitors individual user activity & mobile devices	32%
Continuous internal monitoring	64%
Contextual & situational awareness	38%
Meets auditing & compliance requirements	12%
Cross-department collaboration	20%
Other	9%

Cisco Stealthwatch Case Study

Montefiore Medical Center

Introduction

This case study of Montefiore Medical Center is based on a September 2016 survey of Cisco Stealthwatch customers by TechValidate, a 3rd-party research service.

“Stealthwatch protects my previous investments by allowing me to do more with my existing security tools.”

“Stealthwatch has dramatically improved my organization’s security posture.”

For Montefiore Medical Center, Stealthwatch has:
1. Detected illegal scanning from compromised devices
2. Detected scanning from unknown devices
3. Helped identify medical devices not previously counted
4. Helped with ransomware investigations
5. Excellent continuously monitoring of critical & vulnerable assets

“I love Stealthwatch because it gives me a snapshot of what, how, and where the traffic on my network is doing.”

Challenges

The business challenges that led Montefiore Medical Center to evaluate and ultimately select Cisco Stealthwatch:

Uses Stealthwatch to gain visibility into the following:
- Data centers
- Core
- User data
- Mobile devices
- Application usage
- Virtualized infrastructure
- Cloud environments
- IoT devices

Use Case

Montefiore Medical Center uses Stealthwatch for the following reasons:

Combat insider threats
Identify malware and APTs
Conduct forensic investigations
Proactively hunt for threats on the network

Results

Montefiore Medical Center achieved the following results with Cisco Stealthwatch:

Uses Stealthwatch for the following reasons:
- Improve security efficacy
- Reduce enterprise risk
- Protect intellectual property
- Improve regulatory compliance
Uses Stealthwatch to enable the following:
- Detect threats faster
- Secure more areas of the network
- Illuminate blind spots in the network
- Accelerate incident response
- Improve forensic investigations
Rates their experience with Stealthwatch’s proposed benefits to be as follows:
- Simple, easy to use: strongly agree
- Open, easy to integrate: very strongly agree
- Automated, reduces manual work: very strongly agree
- Effective, enhances security: very strongly agree

Case Study: Tembec

Introduction

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

“Greater visibility and the ability to zero in on the problem quickly. Ability to trace incidents back to source.”

Challenges

Solved the following operational challenges with Stealthwatch by Cisco:
- Reduced mean-time-to-know (MTTK) root cause of network or security incidents
- Enhanced network security posture
- Increased efficiency in the identification of security threats
- Increased flow collection, monitoring and analysis

Use Case

Primarily uses Stealthwatch by Cisco in the following ways:
- Incident Response
- Network Forensics
- Security Forensics
- Network performance monitoring
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 large, globally distributed network

Results

Chose Stealthwatch by Cisco for the following capabilities:
- Behavior-based security monitoring
- Real-time flow monitoring capabilities
Selected Stealthwatch by Cisco over the following vendors:
- Riverbed Cascade / Mazu Networks
- Arbor Networks
- NetQoS / CA
Meets enterprise requirements by utilizing the following Stealthwatch by Cisco benefits:
- Improved incident response and threat management
- Enterprise-wide visibility into network activity
- Forensic analysis
Reduced the time it took to mitigate a security incident by 50% to 74% by deploying Stealthwatch.
Rated the following Stealthwatch by Cisco capabilities as compared to competing vendors:
- Network Security: Much Better
- Performance Monitoring: Better
- Scalability: Better
- Network Visibility: Better
- Innovation: Better

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Visibility Critical to Health Care Professionals

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Montefiore Medical Center

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Use Case

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Case Study: Tembec

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