Cisco Secure Network Analytics Case Study: Webster Financial Corporation

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Case Study: Webster Financial Corporation

Introduction

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

“I like having access to the highly trained staff to help us talk through alerts and issues that we have on our network. "

Challenges

Purchased Cisco because it is differentiated from competitive products in the following areas:
- Customer support

Use Case

Is currently using Stealthwatch for:
- Specialized threat analysis & protection
- Advanced threat detection
Uses Stealthwatch with:
- Firewalls
- IDS / IPS

Results

The following are the greatest benefits of the internal visibility provided by Cisco Stealthwatch:
- Earliest detection of advanced threats (APTs, malware, etc.)
- Forensics
- Continuous internal monitoring
Agrees that Stealthwatch’s user/host-level information is critical for the following:
- Security
Rated Stealthwatch’s effectiveness in the following areas:
- detecting DDoS: extremely effective
- accelerating incident response and forensics: extremely effective
- detecting advanced persistent threats: extremely effective
- 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
Ranks Cisco’s customer support as excellent.

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Case Study: Webster Financial Corporation

Introduction

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Use Case

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