Cisco Secure Network Analytics Case Study: Gannett Co., Inc.

Case Study: Gannett Co., Inc.

This case study of Gannett Co., Inc. is based on a June 2014 survey of Cisco Stealthwatch customers by TechValidate, a 3rd-party research service.

Purchased Cisco because it is differentiated from competitive products in the following areas:
- Scalability up to 3 million flows per second
- User centric monitoring

Uses Stealthwatch with:
- Firewalls
- IDS / IPS
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

The following are the greatest benefits of the internal visibility provided by Cisco Stealthwatch:
- Earliest detection of advanced threats (APTs, malware, etc.)
- Continuous internal monitoring
Agrees that Stealthwatch’s user/host-level information is critical for the following:
- Security
- Compliance
Rated Stealthwatch’s effectiveness in the following areas:
- 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:
- NetScout
- Plixer