Cisco Secure Network Analytics Case Study: Council Rock School District

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Case Study: Council Rock School District

Introduction

This case study of Council Rock School District is based on a December 2012 survey of Cisco Stealthwatch customers by TechValidate, a 3rd-party research service.

“Prior, I had no consolidated single view picture that provided, with a single click or two, the depth of information. I could get the depth, or the broad stroke, but not both. Cisco provided me with the visibility I needed.”

Challenges

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

Use Case

Primarily uses Stealthwatch by Cisco in the following ways:
- Network Forensics
- Security Forensics
- Application performance monitoring
- Network performance monitoring
Used Stealthwatch to detect or prevent the following security threats:
- Suspicious user behavior
- Network reconnaissance
Is doing the following with Stealthwatch by Cisco deployment:
- Monitoring a centralized network with a large number of satellite or retail locations

Results

Chose Stealthwatch by Cisco for the following capabilities:
- Behavior-based security monitoring
- Real-time flow monitoring capabilities
- Internal visibility
- Forensics
- Auditing and compliance requirements
- Identity awareness
- Application Aware Network Performance Monitoring
Selected Stealthwatch by Cisco over the following vendors:
- Open source solution
- Cisco
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
- Enterprise-wide user monitoring
- Forensic analysis
Reduced the time it took to mitigate a security incident by > 75% 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: Council Rock School District

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