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Case Study: Large Enterprise Financial Services Company

Introduction

This case study of a large enterprise financial services company is based on a August 2015 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.

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“With limited resources and large amounts of data, Cisco helps pinpoint areas my analyst needs focus.”

Challenges

  • Stealthwatch has helped improve the following:
    • Real-time threat detection
    • Forensic investigations
    • Overall security posture
    • Network troubleshooting

Use Case

  • Stealthwatch has helped with:
    • Insider threats
    • APTs
    • Malware/zero-day attacks
    • DDoS attacks
    • Compliance
    • Misconfiguration
  • Is able to secure the following with Stealthwatch:
    • Virtual infrastructure/private clouds
    • The data center
    • Areas of my network I could not see previously

Results

  • Reduced their network and security troubleshooting time by minutes.
  • Stealthwatch System has helped their organization achieve the following:
    • Greater network visibility
    • Heightened threat intelligence
    • Enhanced visibility in the data center
    • Increased application awareness
  • Found the following Stealthwatch capabilities to be the most beneficial:
    • Sophisticated security analytics/behavioral analysis
    • Context awareness (user, application, device data)
    • Flow stitching and deduplication
    • Scalability
  • Compared to other security vendors, Cisco is:
    • Effective at detecting attacks
    • Innovative
    • Supportive of its customers
    • Easy to use
    • Easy to integrate with other security technologies
    • Cost effective
  • Stealthwatch enables the company to:
    • Better manage security with limited staff/resources

Company Profile

The company featured in this case study asked to have its name publicly blinded because publicly endorsing vendors is against their policies.

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Company Size:
Large Enterprise

Industry:
Financial Services

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: TechValidate survey of a Large Enterprise Financial Services Company
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  Published: Jan. 10, 2017   TVID: 2F6-A09-908




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