Cisco Secure Network Analytics Case Study: Westinghouse Electric

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Case Study: Westinghouse Electric

Introduction

This case study of Westinghouse Electric Company, LLC is based on a December 2012 survey of Cisco Stealthwatch customers by TechValidate, a 3rd-party research service.

“Cisco’s solution has provided us with better visibility into network activity across our global enterprise. The near real-time data reporting and alerting capabilities enable our team to detect and respond quicker to security incidents as they occur.”

Challenges

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

Use Case

Primarily uses Stealthwatch in the following ways:
- Incident Response
- Network Forensics
- Security Forensics
- NIST compliance
- Network performance monitoring
Used Stealthwatch to detect or prevent the following security threats:
- Advanced persistent threats
- Network malware or virus
- Compromised host
- Data loss / exfiltration
- Command and control traffic / botnets
- Network reconnaissance
Is doing the following with Stealthwatch deployment:
- Monitoring a large, globally distributed network
- Monitoring traffic within a data center, physical and virtual

Results

Chose Stealthwatch for the following capabilities:
- Behavior-based security monitoring
- Real-time flow monitoring capabilities
- Internal visibility
- Forensics
- Advanced Persistent Threats (APTs)
- Scalability
- Identity awareness
Selected Stealthwatch over the following vendors:
- Q1 Labs / IBM
- Fluke / Visual Network systems
Meets enterprise requirements by utilizing the following Stealthwatch by Cisco benefits:
- Scalability and flexibility
- Real-time threat detection and correlation with user identity data
- Enterprise-wide visibility into network activity
- Deployment and support simplicity
- Forensic analysis
Reduced the time it took to mitigate a security incident by 25% to 49% by deploying Stealthwatch.
Rated the following Stealthwatch capabilities as compared to competing vendors:
- Network Security: Much Better
- Network Visibility: Much Better
- Innovation: Better
- Scalability: Better

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Case Study: Westinghouse Electric

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