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Case Study: The University Of Manchester

Introduction

This case study of The University of Manchester is based on a November 2013 survey of Cisco Stealthwatch customers by TechValidate, a 3rd-party research service.

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“Stealthwatch provides an holistic view of our network rather than a specific link or part of the network. The rich functionality together with the superb customer support gives us an excellent tool for combating security issues on the network.”

Challenges

  • Purchased Cisco because it is differentiated from competitive products in the following areas:
    • 1:1 Flows
    • Advanced behavioral detection
    • Flow analytics
    • Customer support

Use Case

  • Is currently using Stealthwatch for:
    • Network analysis & visibility
    • Network performance monitoring & diagnostics
  • Uses StealthWatch with:
    • VPN

Results

  • The following are the greatest benefits of the internal visibility provided by Cisco Stealthwatch:
    • Faster incident response
    • Forensics
    • Continuous internal monitoring
  • Agrees that Stealthwatch’s user/host-level information is critical for the following:
    • Security
    • Performance monitoring
    • Forensics
  • Rated Stealthwatch’s effectiveness in the following areas:
    • accelerating incident response and forensics: extremely effective
    • detecting insider threats / Suspicious behavior: extremely effective
    • detecting malware / zero-day attacks: effective
  • Saves hours per incident for determining Mean-Time-To-Identify threats and Mean-Time-To-Know root cause using Stealthwatch.
  • 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 : Critical
  • Ranks Cisco’s customer support as excellent.

Organization Profile

Organization:
The University of Manchester

Industry:
Educational Institution

About Cisco Stealthwatch

With Stealthwatch, organizations can improve both network security and performance, and avoid the high costs associated with downtime, security breaches and other issues.

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Source: Tony Arnold, Security Manager, The University of Manchester
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  Published: Jan. 10, 2017   TVID: 7B3-867-C05




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