Spirent Helps Leading European Fintech Platform Organization Boost Cyber Defenses
17 Avril 2024 - 2:00PM
Business Wire
Real-world traffic generation brings new levels
of testing capability to help keep customer transactions safe
Spirent Communications plc (LSE:SPT), the leading provider of
test and assurance solutions for next-generation devices and
networks, announced today that it is working with one of the
world’s leading online payment platforms to help ensure the
integrity of its cyber defenses. The company has adopted Spirent’s
CyberFlood solution to test the performance, scalability, and
security effectiveness of its network defenses.
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 Remco Poortvliet, CTO at APTN.
“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.”
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, 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 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.
”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.”
This is the latest financial services customer to select Spirent
solutions after the company announced in November 2023 that it had
signed an agreement with a leading global retail and investment
bank to design, install, and configure a new testing infrastructure
to automate its network of test laboratories.
About Spirent
Spirent Communications plc. (LSE: SPT) is the leading global
provider of automated test and assurance solutions for networks,
cybersecurity, and positioning. The company provides innovative
products, services and managed solutions that address the test,
assurance, and automation challenges of a new generation of
technologies, including 5G, SD-WAN, cloud, autonomous vehicles and
beyond. From the lab to the real world, Spirent helps companies
deliver on their promise to their customers of a new generation of
connected devices and technologies. For more information visit
www.spirent.com and follow us on LinkedIn, Twitter and
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