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Stealthwatch Case Study

Large Enterprise Chemicals Company

Introduction

This case study of a large enterprise chemicals company is based on a March 2018 survey of Stealthwatch customers by TechValidate, a 3rd-party research service. The profiled company asked to have their name blinded to protect their confidentiality.

“Cisco Stealthwatch is easy to setup. One of the features we have found to be most useful is the additional user context and ability to quarantine infected hosts that is available through the integration with Cisco Identity Services Engine (ISE).”

Challenges

The business challenges that led the profiled company to evaluate and ultimately select Stealthwatch:

  • Faced the following challenges before their network visibility and security analytics solution:
    • Lack of visibility into a complex network with branches, IoT devices, remote employees and guests, cloud infrastructure

Use Case

The key features and functionalities of Stealthwatch that the surveyed company uses:

  • Uses Stealthwatch to gain visibility into:
    • Data centers
    • Access
    • Edge
    • Core

Results

The surveyed company achieved the following results with Stealthwatch:

  • Uses Stealthwatch Enterprise to:
    • Investigate the source of the threat through network audit trails
    • Simplify network segmentation by modeling and enforcing policies




About This Data

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