Fintech firm realized it needed a more advanced solution to test network security defenses and handle the ever-complex traffic patterns. Therefore chose Spirent CyberFlood to also address fresh security concerns that surface every day.
Assisting to maintain the integrity of cyber defenses, Spirent Communications announced that it is collaborating with one of the top online payment systems in the world providing its leading Network Security Defenses solution, CyberFlood.
The company has assessed the effectiveness, scalability, and performance through advance test network security defenses using Spirent’s CyberFlood system, said Spirent’s official release.
Being a leading worldwide merchant acquirer bank, the client makes it possible for companies all over the globe to take thousands of daily payments from e-commerce, mobile, and point-of-sale (POS) systems.
The firm asked APNT Network Technology, an Elite Spirent partner, for assistance in strengthening its cyber defenses and test network security defenses by adding real-world application and threat traffic production to its testing regimen.
This was done to make sure it could continue to offer the finest service to its clients confirmed the official release.
“Handling countless transactions every day, the customer’s financial technology platform relies on its next-generation firewalls (NGFWs) to keep it and the transactions of its many customers safe at all times,” said Remco Poortvliet, CTO at APNT. “With performance capacity crucial to its operations, it realized it needed greater flexibility to be able to test its firewall functionality with genuinely realistic traffic generation that could provide a more detailed understanding of how well its defenses were performing and the impact of security policies on end-customer experience.”
Fintech firm realized it needed a more advanced solution to test network security defenses and handle the ever-complex traffic patterns. Therefore, it chose Spirent CyberFlood to also address fresh security concerns that surface every day.
Previously it relied on publicly accessible generic software to produce data flow. It chose Spirent CyberFlood because of the solution’s extraordinary scalability, user-friendliness, and flexibility to produce hyper-realistic application traffic in order to generate enormous volumes of highly adjustable traffic patterns and profiles to test its firewall.
“Financial services infrastructure is a vital part of our everyday lives, as we entrust organizations to securely handle our in-person and online payments over the internet,” said Spirent’s VP for the EMEA region, Douglas Rankin. “For this reason, enterprises, and financial services organizations in particular, are a key target for threat actors, so it’s vital that these companies constantly test their cyber defenses to ensure they work reliably and effectively and deliver on the quality of experience while maintaining compliance.
“CyberFlood is built for the complexity of the modern threat landscape, allowing customers to test their network security controls such NGFWs, Intrusion Prevention/Detection systems (IPS/IDS), and Web Application Firewalls, under real-world conditions in a lab setting to safely identify and pre-empt potential attacks, performance bottlenecks, and optimize their defenses accordingly.”
Cyberflood To Test Network Security Defenses
In order to test network security defenses for potential vulnerabilities, CyberFlood can be set up to simulate specific traffic patterns and threats that are pulled from an updated database of threats.
These vulnerabilities can then be fixed before they cause problems for a business or its clients. Spirent CyberFlood may test for particular threats, assist firms in optimizing their defenses, and document concerns found, offering further benefits in terms of assurance, financial planning, and regulatory compliance.
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”Information privacy regulations, like General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) in Europe, require organizations to prove that they have done everything in their power to prevent threats like data leaks from happening,” said Poortvliet, “which is why CyberFlood is such a powerful tool for them to test and validate their defenses for real-world conditions in a controlled lab environment.”
After Spirent announced in November 2023 that it had inked a deal with a major international retail and investment bank to design, install, and configure a new testing infrastructure to automate its network of test laboratories, this is the company’s most recent financial services client to choose Spirent solutions.
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