TechValidate Research on Cisco Secure Network Analytics


Case Study: Fortune 500 Automotive & Transport Company

Introduction

This case study of a Fortune 500 automotive & transport company is based on a August 2015 survey of Cisco Stealthwatch customers by TechValidate, a 3rd-party research service. The profiled company asked to have their name blinded to protect their confidentiality.

“Ability to understand our “normal”, enables us to react when it changes and start looking at causes. This helps in very early detection of events, before they impact us and become incidents."

“Stealthwatch is a tool which can be used by both networking and security professionals to effectively solve issues.”

Challenges

  • Stealthwatch has helped improve the following:
    • Network baselining
    • Real-time threat detection
    • Forensic investigations
    • Overall security posture

Use Case

  • Stealthwatch has helped with:
    • Insider threats
    • APTs
    • DDoS attacks
    • Network segmentation
  • Is able to secure the following with Stealthwatch:
    • IoT devices/systems
    • Areas of my network I could not see previously
    • Remote locations

Results

  • Reduced their network and security troubleshooting time by hours.
  • Stealthwatch System has helped their organization achieve the following:
    • Greater network visibility
    • Increased application awareness
  • Found the following Stealthwatch capabilities to be the most beneficial:
    • Sophisticated security analytics/behavioral analysis
    • Context awareness (user, application, device data)
    • Flow stitching and deduplication
    • Detection of lateral movement (East-West Traffic)
    • Scalability
    • Long-term flow storage
  • Compared to other security vendors, Cisco is:
    • Innovative
    • Supportive of its customers
    • Easy to use
    • Cost effective
  • Stealthwatch enables the company to:
    • Better manage security with limited staff/resources
    • Accelerate threat detection and mitigation
    • Gain pervasive network visibility
    • Foster cross-team collaboration within the IT department




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