Spirent Extends Security and Performance Testing Leadership with CyberFlood Update
14 February 2017 - 12:00AM
Business Wire
Industry’s First Server-Response Fuzzing
Raises Security Standards for Testing Against Malicious Attack
Vectors
Spirent Communications plc (LSE:SPT) today extended its
lead in security and performance testing by introducing the
industry’s first server-response fuzzing capability within
CyberFlood, its premier security test product. A breakthrough in
security and performance testing, CyberFlood’s server-response
fuzzing functionality tests the ability of security
devices—firewalls, intrusion prevention systems (IPS), secure web
gateways and others — to handle malformed traffic sent from a
server on the Internet to a client device using a single test
solution. This is achieved without the time, effort and cost of
building a complex test environment, allowing the user to get up
and running more quickly with better results than ever before.
“We launched CyberFlood last year with SmartMutation™, the
first-of-its-kind, true intelligence-driven fuzzing strategy. This
set a new benchmark for security testing, allowing testing to go
deeper, wider and across more code paths than any other solution in
the industry,” said David DeSanto, director, products and threat
research at Spirent Communications. “Other fuzzing solutions today
only offer users the ability to fuzz the client definition of the
network protocol when testing a device.
“Leveraging CyberFlood’s unique technology, users can now fuzz
the server definition of the network protocol, confirming that a
device can handle malformed responses from a server on the Internet
targeting a client device, one of the most common and malicious
attack vectors leveraged by hackers today. This gives enterprises,
service providers and equipment manufacturers a fast and easy way
to test security devices with no test environment to set up, and
with no false positives during testing.”
The latest CyberFlood update includes several new features while
enhancing CyberFlood’s ease of use:
- New Attacks-Only and Client-Only DDoS
attack modes add greater flexibility to DDoS attack emulation and
enable customers to quickly go from the login screen of CyberFlood
to a large-scale DDoS attack emulation in a few clicks.
- New Network Resiliency tests cover the
full range of RFC 2544 verification, including measuring maximum
throughput, latency, jitter and burstability.
- Tests can be organized in groups
focused around a specific goal, such as an upcoming software
release or enterprise product evaluation, enhancing collaboration
within teams.
- Additional fuzzing protocols allow
CyberFlood to test devices across the entire Layers 2 through 7
stack and across multiple industry verticals, including industrial
control, healthcare, finance, IoT and automotive.
CyberFlood continues to set the industry standard for malware
testing with the only near-zero-day malware offering available in
the industry, allowing enterprises to find the holes in their
threat landscape, service providers to validate their SLAs and
equipment manufacturers to confirm and extend their signature as
well as heuristic detection functionality.
“WedgeAMB provides our customers with uncompromising malware
prevention by delivering the threat detection accuracy of a
sandbox, with the inline, real-time blocking speed of an IPS,” said
James Hamilton, CEO at Wedge Networks, Inc., the leader in
Orchestrated Threat Management. “CyberFlood’s ability to provide
performance and accuracy testing with the freshest, most unique
malware testing available in a single solution enables us to
continuously evaluate, demonstrate and improve our solutions.”
Spirent at RSA 2017
CyberFlood v17.1.0 will be on display in the Spirent
Communications booth S2015 in the South Hall during the upcoming
RSA Conference 2017, being held February 13–17 at the Moscone
Center in San Francisco. Spirent will also demonstrate CyberFlood’s
server-response fuzzing and advanced malware testing capabilities
in the booth.
Also at the show, Spirent Positioning Security Technologist Guy
Buesnel will present a classroom session on the evolution of
deliberate threats to global navigation satellite systems (GNSS).
The session, which will be held at 9:00 a.m. on February 17 in
Moscone West, will address the evolution of deliberate GNSS threats
and present the latest evidence of deliberate jammer use from a
network of detector devices.
About Spirent Communications
Spirent Communications is a leader in assessment, validation and
monitoring solutions that test and verify the performance and
security of enterprise network and application infrastructures in a
broad range of environments, including enterprise, IoT, automotive,
mobility and critical infrastructures. Global 2000 customers in
government, industry, healthcare, and financial services employ
Spirent Security products and services to ensure an unsurpassed
service experience while meeting business objectives of reducing
churn, increasing revenue and strengthening market share. For
more information about Spirent Security solutions and services,
visit www.spirent.com/security.
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