Cisco Secure Network Analytics Case Study: HCA Healthcare Inc.

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Case Study: HCA Healthcare Inc.

Introduction

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

Challenges

Purchased Cisco because it is differentiated from competitive products in the following areas:
- Scalability up to 3 million flows per second
- 1:1 Flows
- API

Use Case

Is currently using Stealthwatch for:
- Network analysis & visibility
Uses Stealthwatch with:
- SIEM
- Firewalls
- IDS / IPS

Results

The following are the greatest benefits of the internal visibility provided by Cisco Stealthwatch:
- Faster Incident response
- Continuous internal monitoring
- Contextual & situational awareness
- Network segmentation
Agrees that Stealthwatch’s user/host-level information is critical for the following:
- Security
Rated Stealthwatch’s effectiveness in the following areas:
- Detecting DDoS: uncertain
- Accelerating incident response and forensics: effective
Rated how critical Cisco Stealthwatch is for the following:
- Monitoring visibility: Critical
- Improving security: Critical
- Managing cyber security: somewhat critical
- Responding to cyber threats: somewhat critical
Ranks Cisco’s customer support as excellent.

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Case Study: HCA Healthcare Inc.

Introduction

Challenges

Use Case

Results

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