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Cisco Stealthwatch Case Study

Supreme Court of Virginia

Introduction

This case study of Supreme Court of Virginia is based on a September 2016 survey of Cisco Stealthwatch customers by TechValidate, a 3rd-party research service.

“Stealthwatch protects my previous investments by allowing me to do more with my existing security tools.”

“Stealthwatch has dramatically improved my organization’s security posture.”

“Stealthwatch provides the ability to gain detailed visibility into all areas of our network. This has made a significant impact on our security posture and operational control.”

“I love Stealthwatch because it allows us to quickly identify network traffic anomalies or problems.”

Challenges

The business challenges that led the Supreme Court of Virginia to evaluate and ultimately select Cisco Stealthwatch:

  • Uses Stealthwatch to gain visibility into the following:
    • Data centers
    • Access
    • Edge
    • Core
    • Mobile devices
    • Virtualized infrastructure
    • Cloud environments

Use Case

The key features and functionalities of Cisco Stealthwatch that the Supreme Court of Virginia uses:

  • Uses Stealthwatch for the following reasons:
    • Combat insider threats
    • Improve network performance
    • Proactively hunt for threats on the network

The Supreme Court of Virginia has integrated Stealthwatch with the Identity Services Engine (ISE).

Results

The surveyed organization achieved the following results with Cisco Stealthwatch:

  • Uses Stealthwatch for the following reasons:
    • Improve security efficacy
    • Reduce enterprise risk
    • Increase operational efficiency
  • Uses Stealthwatch to enable the following:
    • Detect threats faster
    • Secure more areas of the network
    • Illuminate blind spots in the network
    • Reduce mean time to dwell for threats on the network
    • Accelerate incident response
  • Rates their experience with Stealthwatch’s proposed benefits to be as follows:
    • Simple, easy to use: very strongly agree
    • Open, easy to integrate: very strongly agree
    • Automated, reduces manual work: very strongly agree
    • Effective, enhances security: very strongly agree




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