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Case Study: Medium Enterprise Banking Company

Introduction

This case study of a medium enterprise banking 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.

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“By increasing visibility into our network we are able to correlate data between our network TAPs and Firewall information to generate a ‘larger view’ of whats really going on in the network and from where.”

Challenges

  • Purchased Cisco because it is differentiated from competitive products in the following areas:
    • Scalability up to 3 million flows per second
    • Flow analytics
    • Value for price
    • Customer support
    • IPv6 and Cisco ISE integration!!!!

Use Case

  • Uses Stealthwatch with:
    • SIEM
    • Firewalls
    • Full-packet capture system
    • ISE
  • Is doing the following with Stealthwatch by Cisco deployment:
    • Monitoring a centralized network with a large number of satellite or retail locations
    • Monitoring traffic within a data center, physical and virtual

Results

  • The following are the greatest benefits of the internal visibility provided by Cisco Stealthwatch:
    • Faster Incident response
    • Forensics
    • Monitors individual user activity & mobile devices
    • Continuous internal monitoring
    • Contextual & situational awareness
    • Meets auditing & compliance requirements
    • Cross-department collaboration
    • Integration with Cisco ISE
  • 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: very critical
    • Improving security: very critical
    • Managing cyber security: very critical
    • Responding to cyber threats : very critical
  • Selected Stealthwatch by Cisco over the following vendors:
    • Arbor Networks
    • NetScout
    • Plixer
    • Orion which is currently in place.

Company Profile

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Company Size:
Medium Enterprise

Industry:
Banking

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 Medium Enterprise Banking Company
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  Published: Jan. 10, 2017   TVID: 391-B67-68B




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