Cisco Secure Network Analytics Case Study: ViaSat

Case Study: ViaSat

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

“[Cisco’s Stealthwatch] is a great way to see threats proactively.”

Primarily uses Stealthwatch by Cisco in the following ways:
- Incident Response
- Network Forensics
- Network performance monitoring
Used Stealthwatch to detect or prevent the following security threats:
- Network malware or virus
- Suspicious user behavior
- Network reconnaissance
Is doing the following with Stealthwatch by Cisco deployment:
- Monitoring a large, globally distributed network
- Monitoring a centralized network with a large number of satellite or retail locations
- Monitoring traffic within a data center, physical and virtual

Chose Stealthwatch by Cisco for the following capabilities:
- Real-time flow monitoring capabilities
- DDoS
- Scalability
- Application Aware Network Performance Monitoring
Selected Stealthwatch by Cisco over the following vendors:
- Arbor Networks
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
- Forensic analysis
Reduced the time it took to mitigate a security incident by 25% to 49% by deploying Stealthwatch.
Rated the following Stealthwatch by Cisco capabilities as compared to competing vendors:
- Network Visibility: Much Better
- Performance Monitoring: Much Better
- Innovation: Much Better
- Network Security: Better
- Scalability: Better