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Case Study: Global 500 Energy & Utilities Company

Introduction

This case study of a Global 500 energy & utilities 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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“Stitches user information to netflow data, reducing time for investigations.”

Challenges

  • Stealthwatch has helped improve the following:
    • Network baselining
    • Network segmentation
    • Real-time threat detection

Use Case

  • Stealthwatch has helped with:
    • Insider threats
    • APTs
    • Malware/zero-day attacks
    • Network performance
  • Is able to secure the following with Stealthwatch:
    • Areas of my network I could not see previously

Results

  • Reduced their network and security troubleshooting time by hours.
  • Stealthwatch System has helped their organization achieve the following:
    • Greater network visibility
    • Heightened threat intelligence
  • Found the following Stealthwatch capability to be the most beneficial:
    • Sophisticated security analytics/behavioral analysis
  • Compared to other security vendors, Cisco is:
    • Effective at detecting attacks
  • Stealthwatch enables the company to:
    • Accelerate threat detection and mitigation

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:
Global 500

Industry:
Energy & Utilities

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 Global 500 Energy & Utilities Company
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  Published: Jan. 10, 2017   TVID: 446-BA1-718




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