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Cisco Stealthwatch Customer Testimonial

Stealthwatch…..

Improves visibility into the network traffic
Identifies different tools throughout a large organization
Helps IR team to track down malicious hosts

— Engineer, Global 500 Beverage Company

Cisco Stealthwatch Customer Experience Customer Research

Compared to your other security vendors; how would you rate the Stealthwatch Customer Experience team?

Extremely better	28%
Significantly better	26%
Better	26%
Don’t know/not sure	17%
Worse	2%

Case Study: Stanford University

Introduction

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

“[Cisco’s Stealthwatch] validates the fact that when a system is compromised/virused – we have the network information to back it up in the form of flows.”

Challenges

Solved the following operational challenges with Stealthwatch by Cisco:
- Enhanced network security posture
- Improved forensic analysis
- Increased flow collection, monitoring and analysis

Use Case

Primarily uses Stealthwatch by Cisco in the following ways:
- Incident Response
- Network Forensics
- Security Forensics
Used Stealthwatch to detect or prevent the following security threats:
- Network malware or virus
- Suspicious user behavior
- External hacking attempt
- 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
- Operating in a classified network with strictly controlled access to specific segments

Results

Chose Stealthwatch by Cisco for the following capabilities:
- Behavior-based security monitoring
- Real-time flow monitoring capabilities
- Internal visibility
Selected Stealthwatch by Cisco over the following vendors:
- Q1 Labs / IBM
- Riverbed Cascade / Mazu Networks
- Arbor Networks
- In-house monitoring solution
- Open source solution
Meets enterprise requirements by utilizing the following Stealthwatch by Cisco benefits:
- Real-time threat detection and correlation with user identity data
- Enterprise-wide visibility into network activity
- Deployment and support simplicity
- Forensic analysis
Rated the following Stealthwatch by Cisco capabilities as compared to competing vendors:
- Network Security: Better
- Performance Monitoring: Better
- Scalability: Better
- Network Visibility: Better
- Innovation: Better

Cisco StealthWatch Customer Testimonial

Customer Success is…….

Very responsive, and specifically tailored to my business. The people who usually help me out at Cisco, know the product inside and out, and they are always willing to lend a hand when I need help.

— Chief Security Officer, Medium Enterprise Telecommunications Equipment Company

Stealthwatch for Addressing Higher Education Security & Network Challenges

What types of operational challenges did the use of Stealthwatch by Cisco solve?

Reduction in Mean-Time-to-Know (MTTK) root cause of network or security incidents	47%
Improved in network performance	26%
Improved network security posture	84%
Improved in application performance	5%
Improved efficiency in the identification of security threats	68%
Improved forensic analysis	79%
Increased correlation of user identity and activity	32%
Increased visibility of mobile devices	11%
Increased flow collection, monitoring and analysis	79%
Enhanced compliance posture	11%

Case Study: Council Rock School District

Introduction

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

“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. Cisco provided me with the visibility I needed.”

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
- 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 Cisco 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 Cisco deployment:
- Monitoring a centralized network with a large number of satellite or retail locations

Results

Chose Stealthwatch by Cisco 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 Cisco over the following vendors:
- Open source solution
- Cisco
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
- 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 Security: Much Better
- Performance Monitoring: Much Better
- Scalability: Much Better
- Network Visibility: Much Better
- Innovation: Much Better

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Case Study: Stanford University

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Case Study: Council Rock School District

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