TechValidate Research on Cisco Secure Network Analytics


Case Study: Fortune 500 Health Care Company

Introduction

This case study of a fortune 500 health care company is based on a June 2014 survey of Cisco Stealthwatch customers by TechValidate, a 3rd-party research service. The profiled company asked to have their name blinded to protect their confidentiality.

Challenges

  • Purchased Cisco because it is differentiated from competitive products in the following areas:
    • Scalability up to 3 million flows per second
    • 1:1 Flows
    • Advanced behavioral detection
    • Flow analytics
    • Customer support

Use Case

  • Uses Stealthwatch with:
    • Full-packet capture system
  • Is doing the following with Stealthwatch by Cisco deployment:
    • Monitoring a centralized network with a large number of satellite or retail locations

Results

  • The following are the greatest benefits of the internal visibility provided by Cisco Stealthwatch:
    • Monitors individual user activity & mobile devices
    • Continuous internal monitoring
    • Contextual & situational awareness
  • 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: extremely effective
    • Accelerating incident response and forensics: extremely effective
    • Detecting advanced persistent threats: extremely effective
    • Detecting insider threats / Suspicious behavior: extremely effective
    • Detecting malware / zero-day attacks: extremely effective
  • Rated how critical Cisco Stealthwatch is for the following:
    • Monitoring visibility: Critical
    • Improving security: Critical
    • Managing cyber security: Critical
    • Responding to cyber threats : Critical
  • Selected Stealthwatch by Cisco over the following vendors:
    • Riverbed Cascade / Mazu Networks
    • NetScout
    • Fluke / Visual Network systems




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