Cisco Secure Network Analytics Case Study: National Water Company

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Case Study: National Water Company

Introduction

This case study of National Water Company is based on a August 2015 survey of Cisco Stealthwatch customers by TechValidate, a 3rd-party research service.

Challenges

Stealthwatch has helped improve the following:
- Real-time threat detection
- Incident response
- Forensic investigations
- Overall security posture
- Network troubleshooting
- Capacity planning

Use Case

Stealthwatch has helped with:
- Insider threats
- Malware/zero-day attacks
- DDoS attacks
- Network performance
Is able to secure the following with Stealthwatch:
- Virtual infrastructure/private clouds
- The data center
- 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
- Heightened threat intelligence
- Improved user identity awareness
- Increased application awareness
Found the following Stealthwatch capabilities to be the most beneficial:
- Sophisticated security analytics/behavioral analysis
- Context awareness (user, application, device data)
Compared to other security vendors, Cisco is:
- Effective at detecting attacks
- Innovative
- Easy to use
- Easy to integrate with other security technologies
Stealthwatch enables the company to:
- Better manage security with limited staff/resources
- Accelerate threat detection and mitigation
- Speed up incident response
- Reduce enterprise risk
- Gain pervasive network visibility
- Clearly report on organizational security to upper management

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Case Study: National Water Company

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