How much security is enough? How to balance performance and security? How to be confident you have the latest content? How real is real-world traffic? These are only some of the many question network operators and security devices vendors ask. Spirent’s latest new powerful and easy to use security testing solution, Spirent Avalanche NEXT generates realistic traffic and attacks to test the performance, scalability and security of today’s application-aware network infrastructure. This short presentations offer a quick overview of this product. How much security is enough? How to balance performance and security? How to be confident you have the latest content? How real is real-world traffic? These are only some of the many question network operators and security devices vendors ask. Spirent’s latest new powerful and easy to use security testing solution, Spirent Avalanche NEXT generates realistic traffic and attacks to test the performance, scalability and security of today’s application-aware network infrastructure. This short presentations offer a quick overview of this product.

1. PROPRIETARY AND CONFIDENTIAL
Ankur Chadda
Spirent Avalanche NEXT
Realism at Scale

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Disruptive to Destructive Attacks
 …till now the cyber attacks have
been disruptive but in future they
will be destructive…
- RSA AsiaPac 2013
 There are more than million
applications available on app store,
android market and Facebook
combined
 According to Pandlabs study there
are more than 74,000 new pieces of
malware discovered everyday

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Challenges
 How much Security is enough?
 How to balance Performance and Security?
 How to be confident you have the latest content?
 How real is real-world traffic?
Cloud Applications Validation
Infrastructure Validation

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Avalanche NEXT is…
… a powerful, easy-to-use test solution that generates
realistic traffic and attacks to test the performance,
scalability and security of today’s application-aware network
infrastructure.
Avalanche NEXTAvalanche
Studio

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SECURITY
Find and Fix
Vulnerabilities
Quickly
REALISM
Test Your
Network, Your
Traffic, Your Reality
Avalanche
NEXT
PERFORMANCE
Extreme Scale
Performance
AGILITY
Test Now, Not Months
From Now

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Security
 Assess perimeter security
with 1000s of attacks testing
 Find zero day vulnerabilities
with Fuzzing
 Emulate malware infected
host behavior

7. ‹#› PROPRIETARY AND CONFIDENTIAL
Realism
 Create realistic tests with
mixed application traffic
 Mix apps and attacks to
stress your security
infrastructure
 Thousands of latest apps to
create today’s traffic
environment

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Performance
 For higher data capacity
needs test with line rate
stateful traffic on multiple
10G port
 More than 7 million new
connections per second can
recreate any high volume
seasonal surge in traffic

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Agility
 Online TestCloud is always up to
date
 Latest apps, attacks and malware
 Allows quick delivery of new
content to all users

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Avalanche NEXT Benefits
• Verify the accuracy of app detection engines and
policies
• Evaluate the impact of security policies on app
performance
• Recreate production-level mixes and test QoS
policies
Test and Enforce
Application
Policies
• Benchmark scalability and network capacity
• Run “what-if” scenarios and impact of config
changes
• Validate proof-of-concept designs
Benchmark
Performance
and Capacity
• Verify network devices as they detect thousands of
attacks
• Test devices’ ability to deal with millions malicious
inputs
• Test for malware, infected hosts, unwanted URLs
and spam
Validate
Network
Security

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Summary
 Spirent has the broadest security testing
portfolio with all the capabilities of
Avalanche and Studio combined
 Avalanche NEXT is the next generation
application and security testing platform
provides
 With addition of malware, ESP, C100-
MP, Avalanche NEXT we are making great
strides in this growing market
Security
Realism
Performance
Agility

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THANK YOU
Ankur Chadda
ankur.chadda@spirent.com
www.spirent.com/go/avalanchenext