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Cisco Stealth-Watch ( Complete Visibility in your Network )

Today i am going to talk about the one of the product that Cisco added latest in their portfolio. The product is specified on the network visibility and the analytics in your network. There are lot of products cisco actually launches for the visibility of the network and at last they buy a company called " LANCOPE" whose product is named as Stealth-Watch and now the Stealth-Watch is the authorised product in the Cisco portfolio.

 Q: What is the baseline protocol for the Cisco Stealth-Watch to work ?
Ans: Well Cisco uses Net-flow to provide the complete visibility across the network. It can be Small offices, Datacentre, Enterprise networks, Cloud and many more.

 Whenever we are talking about the Network as a sensor or Network as a enforcer, Cisco Stealth-watch is the complete product for this.
Fig 1.1- Cisco Stealth-Watch
There are some of the features of the Cisco Stealth-watch 
  • Stealth-watch give you complete Visibility (North-South, East-West, Campus, DC, Cloud or any other place using the existing Network Devices)
  • Stealth-watch helps in Network Behavior Anomaly Detection (NBAD),
  • Stealth-watch helps in Incident Response and Forensics
  • Stealth-watch helps you use your existing network as a security sensor and enforcer to dramatically improve your threat defence

Cisco Stealth-watch system are the Flow Collector, Flow Sensor, and Management Console. Additional licenses for added functionality are available. Please review the individual data sheets about these licenses for more detailed information. 

 With the help of Cisco Stealth-Watch you can easily find the abnormal behaviour in the network and also analyse the data across the network. It can spot suspicious network behaviour  This capability is especially valuable at the enterprise level.
 
Benefits
Through its unique view and analysis of network traffic, Cisco Stealth-watch dramatically improves:
    • ●  Real-time threat detection
    • ●  Incident response and forensics
    • ●  Network segmentation
    • ●  Network performance and capacity planning
    • ●  Ability to satisfy regulatory requirements