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Stealthwatch Cloud Case Study

Medium Enterprise Professional Services Company

Introduction

This case study of a medium enterprise professional services company is based on an October 2020 survey of Stealthwatch Cloud customers by TechValidate, a 3rd-party research service. The profiled company asked to have their name blinded to protect their confidentiality.

“We increased visibility and control.”

Challenges

The business challenges that led the profiled company to evaluate and ultimately select Stealthwatch Cloud:

  • Challenges that motivated their search for a Network Detection and Response (NDR) solution:
    • A lack of visibility into a complex network (with branches, IoT devices, remote employees and guests, cloud infrastructure)
    • Detecting insider threats

Use Case

The key features and functionalities of Stealthwatch Cloud that the surveyed company uses:

  • Is using Stealthwatch Cloud to monitor the private network.
  • Stealthwatch Cloud helps them meet the following compliance frameworks:
    • PCI
    • ISO
    • NIST
    • CIS Benchmarks
  • They have activated SecureX in Stealthwatch Cloud.

Results

The surveyed company achieved the following results with Stealthwatch Cloud:

  • Stealthwatch Cloud has been most impactful in detecting:
    • Data exfiltration
    • Encrypted threats
    • Policy violations
    • Threats originating within the network
  • Agrees that Stealthwatch Cloud helped their organization enforce internal security policy requirements.
  • Stealthwatch Cloud makes them feel more confident in their ability to:
    • Detect threats that have bypassed other defenses
    • Conduct forensic analysis
    • Quickly identify the source of an attack




About This Data

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