Cisco Secure Network Analytics Case Study: Office of the Governor, State Of Connecticut

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Case Study: Office of the Governor, State Of Connecticut

Introduction

This case study of The Office of Governor, State of Connecticut is based on a December 2012 survey of Cisco Stealthwatch customers by TechValidate, a 3rd-party research service.

“[Cisco] allows our engineers to address network performance issues faster and the Stealthwatch System has made our network more technically visible in our reports.”

Challenges

Solved the following operational challenges with Stealthwatch by Cisco:
- Reduced mean-time-to-know (MTTK) root cause of network or security incidents
- Improved in network performance
- Enhanced network security posture
- Improved in application performance
- Improved forensic analysis
- Increased correlation of user identity and activity
- Increased flow collection, monitoring and analysis

Use Case

Primarily uses Stealthwatch by Cisco in the following ways:
- Incident Response
- Network Forensics
- Security Forensics
- Application performance monitoring
- Network performance monitoring
Used Stealthwatch to detect or prevent the following security threats:
- Advanced persistent threats
- Network malware or virus
- Suspicious user behavior
- External hacking attempt
- Compromised host
- Command and control traffic / botnets
- Network reconnaissance
Is doing the following with Stealthwatch by Cisco deployment:
- Monitoring a centralized network with a large number of satellite or retail locations
- Monitoring traffic within a data center, physical and virtual

Results

Chose Stealthwatch by Cisco for the following capabilities:
- Behavior-based security monitoring
- Real-time flow monitoring capabilities
- Internal visibility
- DDoS
- Forensics
- Advanced Persistent Threats (APTs)
- Auditing and compliance requirements
- Scalability
- Application Aware Network Performance Monitoring
Selected Stealthwatch by Cisco over the following vendors:
- Fluke / Visual Network systems
- Plixer
- SolarWinds
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
- Enterprise-wide visibility into network activity
- Deployment and support simplicity
- 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 Security: Much Better
- Performance Monitoring: Much Better
- Scalability: Much Better
- Network Visibility: Much Better
- Innovation: Much Better

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Case Study: Office of the Governor, State Of Connecticut

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