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Case Study: State & Local Government

Introduction

This case study of a state & local government is based on a August 2015 survey of Cisco Stealthwatch customers by TechValidate, a 3rd-party research service. The profiled organization asked to have their name blinded to protect their confidentiality.

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“With Stealthwatch, we enabled our security team to better investigate problems within our network and more efficiently remediate any issues.”

“Cisco is a great company that stands by their clients. Stealthwatch is not only selling a great product, it is also giving us an edge over breach resolution.”

Challenges

  • Stealthwatch has helped improve the following:
    • Network baselining
    • Real-time threat detection
    • Incident response
    • Overall security posture
    • Network troubleshooting

Use Case

  • Stealthwatch has helped with:
    • Insider threats
    • DDoS attacks
    • Network performance
  • Is able to secure the following with Stealthwatch:
    • Virtual infrastructure/private clouds
    • IoT devices/systems
    • The data center

Results

  • Stealthwatch System has helped their organization achieve the following:
    • Greater network visibility
    • Heightened threat intelligence
    • Enhanced visibility in the data center
    • Improved user identity awareness
    • More visibility into mobile devices
  • 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
    • Supportive of its customers
    • 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
    • Gain pervasive network visibility

Organization Profile

The organization featured in this case study asked to have its name publicly blinded because publicly endorsing vendors is against their policies.

TechValidate stands behind the authenticity of this data.

Organization Size:
State & Local

Industry:
Government

About Cisco Stealthwatch

With Stealthwatch, organizations can improve both network security and performance, and avoid the high costs associated with downtime, security breaches and other issues.

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Source: TechValidate survey of a State & Local Government
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  Published: Jan. 10, 2017   TVID: C82-2DA-7C8




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