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Case Study: Miami-Dade County

Introduction

This case study of Miami-Dade County is based on a November 2013 survey of Cisco Stealthwatch customers by TechValidate, a 3rd-party research service.

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“[My favorite aspect of the Stealthwatch Solution is it gives an] overview of the network.”

Challenges

  • Purchased Cisco because it is differentiated from competitive products in the following areas:
    • User centric monitoring
    • Flow analytics

Use Case

  • Is currently using Stealthwatch for:
    • Network analysis & visibility
    • Advanced threat detection
    • Network performance monitoring & diagnostics
  • Uses Stealthwatch with:
    • Firewalls
    • Full-packet capture system

Results

  • The following are the greatest benefits of the internal visibility provided by Cisco Stealthwatch:
    • Earliest detection of advanced threats (APTs, malware, etc.)
    • Faster Incident response
    • Monitors individual user activity & mobile devices
  • Agrees that Stealthwatch’s user/host-level information is critical for the following:
    • Security
    • Performance monitoring
    • Network troubleshooting
  • Rated Stealthwatch’s effectiveness in the following areas:
    • Detecting DDoS: effective
    • Accelerating incident response and forensics: effective
    • Detecting advanced persistent threats: effective
    • Detecting insider threats / Suspicious behavior: effective
    • Detecting malware / zero-day attacks: effective
  • Saves hours per incident for determining Mean-Time-To-Identify threats and Mean-Time-To-Know root cause using Stealthwatch.
  • Rated how critical Cisco Stealthwatch is for the following:
    • Monitoring visibility: very critical
    • Improving security: very critical
    • Managing cyber security: Critical
    • Responding to cyber threats: Critical
  • Ranks Cisco’s customer support as above average.

Organization Profile

Organization:
Miami-Dade County

Organization Size:
State & Local

Industry:
Government

About Cisco Stealthwatch

With Stealthwatch, organizations can improve both network security and performance, and avoid the high costs associated with downtime, security breaches and other issues.

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Source: Jesus Lira, IT Manager, Miami-Dade County
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  Published: Jan. 10, 2017   TVID: BF1-2EF-90C




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