Cisco Secure Network Analytics Case Study: California Dept. of Education

Case Study: California Dept. of Education

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

“Going to Cisco has provided us with end-to-end visibility, and monitoring scalability once thought impossible for a reasonable price.”

Primarily uses Stealthwatch by Cisco in the following ways:
- Incident Response
- Network Forensics
- Security Forensics
- Network performance monitoring
Used Stealthwatch to detect or prevent the following security threats:
- Network malware or virus
- Suspicious user behavior
- External hacking attempt
- Compromised host
- Network reconnaissance
Is doing the following with Stealthwatch by Cisco deployment:
- Midsized LAN / and Small WAN

Chose Stealthwatch by Cisco for the following capabilities:
- Behavior-based security monitoring
- Real-time flow monitoring capabilities
- Internal visibility
- Forensics
- Identity awareness
- Application Aware Network Performance Monitoring
Selected Stealthwatch by Cisco over the following vendors:
- Riverbed Cascade / Mazu Networks
- NetScout
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
- 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 Security: Much Better
- Scalability: Much Better
- Innovation: Much Better
- Performance Monitoring: Better