Spirent Helps Leading European Fintech Platform Organization Boost Cyber Defenses
Real-world traffic generation brings new levels of testing capability to help keep customer transactions safe
As a leading global merchant acquirer bank, the customer enables businesses around the world to accept tens of thousands of e-commerce, mobile, and point-of-sale (POS) payments every day. To ensure it can continue to provide the best service to its customers, the company approached APNT Network Technology, an Elite Spirent partner, for help in further bolstering its cyber defenses by introducing real-world application and threat traffic generation to its testing regime.
“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
Having relied previously on freely available generic software to generate data traffic, the company recognized the need for a more sophisticated solution to deal with the increasingly complex traffic patterns and new security threats that emerge daily. To generate large amounts of highly configurable traffic patterns and profiles to test its firewall, it selected Spirent CyberFlood for the solution’s extreme scalability, ease of use, and flexibility to generate hyper-realistic application traffic.
“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,
“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 can be configured to generate specific traffic patterns and threats - drawn from a constantly updated database of threats – to test network security defenses for potential vulnerabilities, which can then be addressed before they become an issue for a business and its customers. In addition to being able to test for specific threats and help organizations optimize their defenses, CyberFlood can also document issues identified, providing further benefits in terms of assurance, budgetary planning, and regulatory compliance.
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