Cisco Secure Network Analytics Case Study: Educational Institution

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Case Study: Educational Institution

Introduction

This case study of a educational institution is based on a August 2015 survey of Cisco Stealthwatch customers by TechValidate, a 3rd-party research service. The profiled organization asked to have their name blinded to protect their confidentiality.

“Drilling down into the traffic flows has been very helpful for our network team to reduce the amount of time it takes to troubleshoot an issue.”

Challenges

Stealthwatch has helped improve the following:
- Network baselining
- Incident response
- Forensic investigations
- Network troubleshooting

Use Case

Stealthwatch has helped with:
- Network performance
- Network segmentation
- Troubleshooting performance issues and an understanding of what is going on with our network so we can be more proactive rather than reactive.
Is able to secure the following with Stealthwatch:
- The data center
- Areas of my network I could not see previously

Results

Stealthwatch System has helped their organization achieve the following:
- Greater network visibility
- Enhanced visibility in the data center
- Increased application awareness
Found the following Stealthwatch capabilities to be the most beneficial:
- Context awareness (user, application, device data)
- Flow stitching and deduplication
- Detection of lateral movement (East-West Traffic)
Compared to other security vendors, Cisco is:
- Supportive of its customers
- Easy to use
Stealthwatch enables the company to:
- Speed up incident response
- Reduce enterprise risk
- Gain pervasive network visibility
- Foster cross-team collaboration within the IT department

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Case Study: Educational Institution

Introduction

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