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Case Study: Global 500 Financial Services Company

Introduction

This case study of a Global 500 financial services company is based on a November 2013 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.

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Challenges

  • Purchased Cisco because it is differentiated from competitive products in the following areas:
    • Advanced behavioral detection
    • Flow analytics

Use Case

  • Is currently using Stealthwatch for:
    • Specialized threat analysis & protection
    • Advanced threat detection
  • Uses Stealthwatch with:
    • IDS / IPS
    • Full-packet capture system

Results

  • The following are the greatest benefits of the internal visibility provided by Cisco Stealthwatch:
    • Faster Incident response
    • Forensics
    • Contextual & situational awareness
    • Cross-department collaboration
  • Rated Stealthwatch’s effectiveness in the following areas:
    • detecting DDoS: extremely effective
    • accelerating incident response and forensics: effective
    • detecting advanced persistent threats: effective
    • detecting insider threats / Suspicious behavior: effective
    • detecting malware / zero-day attacks: effective
  • Saves hours per incident for determining Mean-Time-To-Identify threats and Mean-Time-To-Know root cause using Stealthwatch.
  • Rated how critical Cisco Stealthwatch is for the following:
    • Improving security: very critical
    • Managing cyber security: very critical
    • Responding to cyber threats : very critical

Company Profile

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

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Company Size:
Global 500

Industry:
Financial Services

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 Global 500 Financial Services Company
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  Published: Jan. 10, 2017   TVID: C86-B5E-4EA




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