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Optimizing Cybersecurity and Traffic Flow

What are the Key Cybersecurity Issues for Government Agencies?

Firewalls and intrusion detection and prevention systems (IDS/IPS) are the first line of defense against unauthorized entry into a network that threatens continuity of operations.

The escalating number of threats, vast number of IP or user dialogs, and the demands on network processing combine to challenge agencies trying to secure their networks.

Spirent Solves Your Critical Test Challenges.

Spirent helps government agencies ensure that cybersecurity devices can counter network threats by providing tools that drastically reduce the tasks of researching, recreating and testing vulnerabilities. These include injecting actual hostile traffic into a cybersecurity device while testing the effect on application traffic. We not only test cybersecurity devices, but the vulnerabilities of each element of the network, yielding the following benefits:

• High performance with full realism
• Blend valid and attack traffic down to the user level
• Fully reproducible testing, even with complex customer scenarios
• Single-pass testing with advanced debugging
• In-depth port, user, session and protocol forensics

Testing Cybersecurity is a complex task made easy by Spirent. With full user realism generation and analysis—even under extreme load—the user can test the effectiveness and Quality of Experience (QoE) of each and every simulated user.

Why Test Cybersecurity with Spirent?

• Recreates hundreds of stateless and stateful attacks (firewalls, IDS, IPS, switches, routers, network management, IPSec, VPNs, video, VoIP and data protocols)
• Support of IPv6 protocols
• Constant updates on latest threats
• Diagnostic assessment and reporting to manage risks
• Used worldwide in public cybersecurity tests of firewalls, IDS/IPS, SSL, VPNs