Case Study: Council Rock School District

Challenges

  • Solved the following operational challenges with StealthWatch by Lancope:
    • 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
    • Improved forensic analysis
    • Increased correlation of user identity and activity, visibility of mobile devices, flow collection, monitoring and analysis

Use Case

  • Primarily uses StealthWatch by Lancope in the following ways:
    • Network Forensics
    • Security Forensics
    • Application performance monitoring
    • Network performance monitoring
  • Used StealthWatch to detect or prevent the following security threats:
    • Suspicious user behavior
    • Network reconnaissance
  • Is doing the following with StealthWatch by Lancope deployment:
    • Monitoring a centralized network with a large number of satellite or retail locations

Results

  • Chose StealthWatch by Lancope for the following capabilities:
    • Behavior-based security monitoring
    • Real-time flow monitoring capabilities
    • Internal visibility
    • Forensics
    • Auditing and compliance requirements
    • Identity awareness
    • Application Aware Network Performance Monitoring
  • Selected StealthWatch by Lancope over the following vendors:
    • Open source solution
    • Cisco
  • Meets enterprise requirements by utilizing the following StealthWatch by Lancope benefits:
    • Scalability and flexibility
    • Real-time threat detection and correlation with user identity data
    • Improved incident response and threat management
    • 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 Lancope capabilities as compared to competing vendors:
    • Network Security: Much Better
    • Performance Monitoring: Much Better
    • Scalability: Much Better
    • Network Visibility: Much Better
    • Innovation: Much Better

Testimonials

“Prior, I had no consolidated single view picture that provided, with a single click or two, the depth of information. I could get the depth, or the broad stroke, but not both. Lancope provided me with the visibility I needed.”

Source: Matthew Frederickson, IT Director, Council Rock School District

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