Cisco Secure Network Analytics Case Study: Yale New Haven Hospital

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Case Study: Yale New Haven Hospital

Introduction

This case study of Yale-New Haven Hospital 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:
- Value for price
- Customer support

Use Case

Is currently using Stealthwatch for:
- Specialized threat analysis & protection
- Network analysis & visibility
- Advanced threat detection
- Network performance monitoring & diagnostics
Uses Stealthwatch with:
- SIEM

Results

The following are the greatest benefits of the internal visibility provided by Cisco Stealthwatch:
- Forensics
- Continuous internal monitoring
Agrees that Stealthwatch’s user/host-level information is critical for the following:
- Security
- Performance monitoring
- Forensics
- Compliance
- Network troubleshooting
Rated Stealthwatch’s effectiveness in the following areas:
- detecting DDoS: 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:
- Monitoring visibility: Critical
- Improving security: somewhat critical
- Managing cyber security: somewhat critical
- Responding to cyber threats : Not Critical
Ranks Cisco’s customer support as above average.

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Case Study: Yale New Haven Hospital

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