Cisco Secure Network Analytics Case Study: Blue Cross Blue Shield Of Tennessee, Inc.

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Case Study: Blue Cross Blue Shield Of Tennessee, Inc.

Introduction

This case study of BlueCross BlueShield of Tennessee, 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:
- User centric monitoring
- Advanced behavioral detection
- Flow analytics
- Customer support

Use Case

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

Results

The following are the greatest benefits of the internal visibility provided by Cisco Stealthwatch:
- Faster Incident response
- Forensics
- Continuous internal monitoring
Agrees that Stealthwatch’s user/host-level information is critical for the following:
- Security
- Forensics
Rated Stealthwatch’s effectiveness in the following areas:
- detecting DDoS: effective
- accelerating incident response and forensics: extremely effective
- detecting advanced persistent threats: uncertain
- detecting insider threats / Suspicious behavior: effective
- detecting malware / zero-day attacks: effective
Rated how critical Cisco Stealthwatch is for the following:
- Monitoring visibility: very critical
- Improving security: Critical
- Managing cyber security: Critical
Ranks Cisco’s customer support as excellent.

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Case Study: Blue Cross Blue Shield Of Tennessee, Inc.

Introduction

Challenges

Use Case

Results

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