PROBLEMS SOLVED

Lancope's StealthWatch™ enterprise products save organizations time and money by reducing the resources required to optimize security and network operations. Is StealthWatch the solution for your organization? The following problems – and how StealthWatch resolves them – can help you decide.

Problem: Typical network optimization and security products cannot easily or safely monitor and protect the entire breadth of an internal enterprise network.
StealthWatch™ security appliances use Lancope's market-leading Network Behavior Analysis (NBA) and Response technology to provide safe, real-time oversight and response for all traffic on internal networks, anywhere across the enterprise, without impacting normal network operations. In addition, the StealthWatch Concern Index™ feature automatically ranks unexpected network activity in terms of severity and risk, which in turn greatly accelerates administrators' ability to isolate resolve any network performance or security incident.
Problem: Typical network optimization and security products do not leverage existing investments in NetFlow or sFlow routers and switches to lower the cost of monitoring and protecting the network.
Lancope's StealthWatch™ Xe appliances use flow information from NetFlow and sFlow routers and switches to provide superior network monitoring and protection without requiring massive investments in new hardware or software.
Problem: Typical network optimization and security products cannot provide comprehensive visibility into network performance, host behavior and user identity across the full breadth of the enterprise.
StealthWatch passively monitors all network traffic across all segments of all internal networks to deliver a true, real-time overview of what is happening inside the enterprise – right now. And yet, StealthWatch's easy-to-use management console provides instant detail drill-down for any network segment, device, host or user.
Problem: IT, network, and security staff rarely have access to essential, centralized operational data that all three organizations need to troubleshoot problems.
StealthWatch's unique Point-Of-View™ technology means that IT, network and security staff have a single, common source for essential network optimization and security data. As a result, incidents can be isolated and resolved faster, with StealthWatch delivering a customized subset of critical network information based on each administrator's individual job responsibilities.
Problem: IT, network and security staff do not have the information or coordination they need to quickly diagnose root causes for network and security incidents.
StealthWatch connects unexpected network activity to the specific devices affected by that traffic in real-time, and then applies advanced forensic capabilities to determine the root cause. Each incident can be resolved automatically, or StealthWatch can recommend the appropriate corrective action as part of the alert.
Problem: IT and network staff do not have easy access to the traffic data and trends that are essential for capacity planning and usage analysis.
StealthWatch automatically baselines normal network traffic in order to recognize unexpected network activity. This information provides essential insight into how the network is being used, in real-time, which in turn helps administrators anticipate and adjust for changing network demands.
Problem: IT, network and security staff cannot quickly connect unexpected, unauthorized or improper network activity with the responsible user or users.
The StealthWatch™ IDentity 1000 appliance unifies network optimization and security with identity management in a single, cost-effective device. As a result, the overall StealthWatch system can automatically connect any individual network event with the user or users responsible for the anomaly.
Problem: Security staff cannot detect or defend against zero-day attacks that bypass network perimeter defenses.
StealthWatch does not rely on attack signatures to protect networks from attack or misuse. Zero-day attacks and other threats that easily bypass network perimeter defenses by definition create unexpected network traffic – which means that they are easily detected and resolved by StealthWatch before they can do any damage.
Problem: IT, network or security staff cannot instantly detect misconfigured, malfunctioning, or unauthorized network resources.
StealthWatch can immediately recognize any misconfigured, malfunctioning or unauthorized device as soon as it connects to the network. These resources generate unexpected network traffic, which StealthWatch recognizes in real-time as part of its normal monitoring activity.
Problem: Internal security solutions based on IDS/IPS are expensive to deploy and overly complex to manage.
A typical enterprise organization using StealthWatch can expect to eliminate up to 80% of the time, cost and complexity associated with internal network protection using IDS/IPS technology. At the same time, StealthWatch stops threats that IDS/IPS devices routinely miss without requiring attack signatures, without creating performance bottlenecks across internal network segments, and without requiring the intricate coordination of security policy across dozens of IDS/IPS devices.