Spirent Extends CyberFlood with Data Breach Emulation for Holistic and Hyper-Realistic Security Testing of Networks and Devices
06 August 2018 - 10:00PM
Business Wire
First Technology to Fully Assess Data Breach
Readiness and Provide Automated Purple Team Testing
BLACK HAT USA 2018 – Spirent Communications plc
(LSE:SPT), the trusted provider of test, measurement, assurance and
analytics solutions for next-generation devices and networks, today
announced the availability of the first solution using data breach
emulation technology to provide holistic and hyper-realistic
security testing of networks and devices for awareness of data
breach and intruder activity. This new solution, CyberFlood Data
Breach Assessment, is a component of Spirent’s CyberFlood product
line, extending it into production environments for continuous
testing of live networks and devices.
As an holistic automated solution within the live network,
CyberFlood Data Breach Assessment provides active monitoring and
ongoing evaluations such as Purple Team assessments. Unlike
testing solutions that simulate attacks, CyberFlood Data Breach
Assessment uses actual attack components, true hacker activity and
malware executables to assess an organization’s vulnerability to
cybercrime. A study from the Center for Strategic and International
Studies estimates that cybercrime costs the global economy $600
billion.
“With the ever-increasing stakes and mounting costs and
penalties for a data breach, organizations must continually assess
their abilities to detect an active attacker,” said David DeSanto,
director, products and threat research, Spirent Communications.
“Unlike existing solutions, which do not use the real methods and
techniques used by real attackers, CyberFlood Data Breach
Assessment uses unique data breach emulation technology to provide
hyper-realistic scenarios and assessments using the actual
methodologies intruders follow. This breakthrough solution gives
organizations the ability to innocuously assess their production
defenses and fortify weaknesses before they are compromised by work
of an attacker.”
Emulation – A Giant Leap beyond Simulation
CyberFlood Data Breach Assessment utilizes real traffic and
activities that are indistinguishable from live efforts by
cybercriminals and other malicious actors, rather than relying on
replayed traffic and network activities that seem real. Security
infrastructures often discount simulated, unreal artifacts,
treating them as phony, non-malicious traffic, and simply pass them
through or block them as invalid network streams. Such traffic
cannot adequately test an organization’s defenses against
cybercrime.
In contrast, Spirent has accumulated an enormous repository of
real attack components, including exploits, applications, and
malware. This repository, powered by Spirent TestCloud, is a
combination of the research of Spirent’s threat research team,
Spirent SecurityLabs, and Spirent’s partnerships within the threat
intelligence community. The result puts Spirent at the forefront of
the fight against cybercrime, with knowledge of the newest threats
and with the broadest range of experience defending against older
ones.
Multi-Tier Protection Validation
In addition to using real traffic and activities, CyberFlood
Data Breach Assessment provides holistic, real-world assessments
and validation because it is not limited to certain portions of a
network. Attackers will choose the weakest link in an environment
and move laterally to reach valuable resources, such as customer
and financial data, intellectual property, and other company
secrets.
To assess security accurately requires consideration of an
organization’s entire environment. CyberFlood Data Breach
Assessment can begin an attack or intrusion activity in any part of
the environment and can pivot across multiple internal network
segments. It can be deployed with physical or virtual sensors
across an entire organization, including corporate and regional
networks, data centers, and private and public cloud resources. It
also assesses all security and networking devices involved in
routing or securing traffic or detecting malicious activity.
Automated Purple Team Assessments
The Purple Team security practice is rapidly becoming both a
standard and a necessity for organizations to evaluate data
breaches and attack readiness. A Purple Team assessment combines an
attacking Red Team with a detecting Blue Team. The CyberFlood Data
Breach Assessment solution combines Red and Blue Teams into a fully
automated Purple Team capability that can be run continuously in
live, production environments. Results are displayed on a dashboard
and in automatically generated reports. In addition, the system can
send warning messages to the security team or initiate trouble
tickets to address issues and unexpected discoveries.
“Assessing data breach readiness has been expensive,
time-consuming and difficult, and plagued with gaps
and deficiencies,” said Jon Oltsik, senior principal analyst,
Enterprise Strategy Group. “Having the ability to use actual
intruder activity on an ongoing basis to assess how live monitoring
systems will perform is essential to knowing whether an
organization can find an intruder before disaster strikes.”
Spirent will demonstrate CyberFlood and its new data breach
emulation capabilities in Booth 1128 at the Black Hat USA 2018
conference in Las Vegas, August 8-9 at the Mandalay Bay Convention
Center.
About Spirent
Spirent Communications plc. (LSE: SPT) offers test, measurement,
analytics and assurance solutions for next-generation devices and
networks. The company provides products, services and information
for high-speed Ethernet, positioning and mobile network
infrastructure markets, with expanding focus on service assurance,
cybersecurity and 5G. Spirent is accelerating the transition of
connected devices, network equipment and applications from
development labs to the operational network, as it continues to
innovate toward fully-automated testing and autonomous service
assurance solutions.
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