Cisco Secure Network Analytics Case Study: United Auto Insurance Group

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Case Study: United Auto Insurance Group

Introduction

This case study of United Auto Insurance Group is based on a December 2012 survey of Cisco Stealthwatch customers by TechValidate, a 3rd-party research service.

“The anomaly based protection has been very instrumental in identifying security threats both internally and externally.”

Challenges

Solved the following operational challenges with Stealthwatch by Cisco:
- Reduced mean-time-to-know (MTTK) root cause of network or security incidents
- Improved in network performance, forensic analysis
- Enhanced network security posture
- Increased efficiency in the identification of security threats, correlation of user identity and activity, flow collection, monitoring and analysis
- Enhanced compliance posture

Use Case

Primarily uses Stealthwatch by Cisco in the following ways:
- Incident Response
- Network Forensics
- Security Forensics
- Application performance monitoring
- PCI compliance
- Network performance monitoring
Used Stealthwatch to detect or prevent the following security threats:
- Advanced persistent threats
- Network malware or virus
- Suspicious user behavior
- External hacking attempt
- Compromised host
- Command and control traffic/ botnets
- Network reconnaissance
Is doing the following with Stealthwatch by Cisco deployment:
- Operating in a classified network with strictly controlled access to specific segments
- Monitoring traffic within a data center, physical and virtual

Results

Chose Stealthwatch by Cisco for the following capabilities:
- Behavior-based security monitoring
- Real-time flow monitoring capabilities
- Forensics
- Advanced Persistent Threats (APTs)
- Auditing and compliance requirements
- Identity awareness
- Application Aware Network Performance Monitoring
Selected Stealthwatch by Cisco over the following vendors:
- Arbor Networks
- NetQoS / CA
- Open source solution
Meets enterprise requirements by utilizing the following Stealthwatch by Cisco benefits:
- Scalability and flexibility
- Real-time threat detection and correlation with user identity data
- Improved incident response and threat management
- Regulatory compliance
- Enterprise-wide visibility into network activity
- Deployment and support simplicity
- Enterprise-wide user monitoring
- Forensic analysis
Improved time to mitigation of a security incident by > 75% by deploying Stealthwatch by Cisco.
Rated the following Stealthwatch by Cisco capabilities as compared to competing vendors:
- Network Security: Much Better
- Performance Monitoring: Much Better
- Network Visibility: Better
- Innovation: Better

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Case Study: United Auto Insurance Group

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