Cisco Secure Network Analytics Case Study: American Cancer Society

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Case Study: American Cancer Society

Introduction

This case study of American Cancer Society, Inc. is based on a December 2012 survey of Cisco Stealthwatch customers by TechValidate, a 3rd-party research service.

“Cisco’s Stealthwatch has made it possible to store and review past network activity in an efficient and affordable manner. Network and application behavior is now available – real-time – to a more diverse IT user base than before, dramatically improving our effectiveness and productivity.”

Challenges

Solved the following operational challenges with Stealthwatch by Cisco:
- Reduced mean-time-to-know (MTTK) root cause of network or security incidents
- Improved in network performance
- Enhanced network security posture
- Improved in application performance
- Increased efficiency in the identification of security threats
- Improved forensic analysis
- Increased correlation of user identity and activity
- Increased visibility of mobile devices
- Increased flow collection, monitoring and analysis
- Enhanced compliance posture

Use Case

Primarily uses Stealthwatch by Cisco in the following ways:
- Incident Response
- Network Forensics
- Security Forensics
- Application performance monitoring
- PCI compliance
- HIPAA compliance
Used Stealthwatch to detect or prevent the following security threats:
- Network malware or virus
- Suspicious user behavior
- Compromised host
- Network reconnaissance
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

Chose Stealthwatch by Cisco for the following capabilities:
- Behavior-based security monitoring
- Real-time flow monitoring capabilities
- Internal visibility
- Forensics
- Advanced Persistent Threats (APTs)
- Auditing and compliance requirements
- Scalability
- Identity awareness
- Application Aware Network Performance Monitoring
Selected Stealthwatch by Cisco over the following vendors:
- In-house monitoring solution
- Open source solution
Meets enterprise requirements by utilizing the following Stealthwatch by Cisco benefits:
- Scalability and flexibility
- Real-time threat detection and correlation with user identity data
- Improved incident response and threat management
- Regulatory compliance
- Enterprise-wide visibility into network activity
- Deployment and support simplicity
- Enterprise-wide user monitoring
- Forensic analysis
Reduced the time it took to mitigate a security incident by > 75% by deploying Stealthwatch.
Rated the following Stealthwatch by Cisco capabilities as compared to competing vendors:
- Network Visibility: Much Better
- Network Security: Much Better
- Innovation: Much Better
- Performance Monitoring: Better
- Scalability: Better

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Case Study: American Cancer Society

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