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| Source: Ixia. Students of Republic Polytechnic's Diploma in Infocomm Security Management, School of Infocomm, held a cyber range exercise at Ixia's Asia Pacific Executive Briefing Centre. The teams battled each other using a variety of attack mechanisms most commonly faced by businesses today. |
Ixia, a provider of networking testing, visibility, and security solutions, has launched its Asia Pacific Executive Briefing Center (APAC EBC) in response to the increasing need for organisations to test, monitor, optimise and defend networks.
Located in Ixia’s Singapore headquarters, the new EBC is one of three such global centres and the first in Asia Pacific. The Ixia APAC EBC is a one-stop demonstration arena of Ixia’s end-to-end
solutions for customers. It is also intended to facilitate industry
interaction and the co-development of solutions with partners, and will
promote learning and research on cybersecurity through seminars. The Ixia APAC EBC will also demonstrate ways to measure the quality of
experience of these real-time, business-critical applications and share
best practices for maintain performance in a reliable, fast, and secure
manner.
The Ixia EBC is unique as it emulates a variety of network environments and can run simulations with data traffic flows of any volume. At the same time, the closed data environment also makes the Ixia APAC EBC an ideal location for cyber range training sessions. “The Ixia Executive Briefing Center is unique and a highly valuable offering for IT professionals who struggle to run real-time stress-testing on their existing infrastructure, as well as simulate data breaches with the latest malware for training purposes,” said Naveen Bhat, MD for Ixia in Asia Pacific.
“Ixia has fitted our EBC with enterprise-grade hardware from the industry’s top vendors to offer our customers the most accurate simulation of both benign and malignant traffic to help prepare for such an attack.”
One of the top uses of the Ixia APAC EBC is expected to be cyber range training. A cyber range offers real world attack scenarios for cybersecurity exercises. Corporate IT teams can rehearse their roles and responsibilities under the strain of an attack, which can range from a zero day attack to a massive-scale distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack.
Zero day attacks involve hackers taking advantage of just-discovered vulnerabilities, before a patch is available to protect against them, while DDoS attacks overwhelm servers with more requests than they can handle. This level of cyber self defence capabilities can help business leaders address current security concerns - only 45%* of organisations worldwide have expressed confidence in their security posture.
A 2016 IDC multi-client study** further revealed that that more than half of the organisations surveyed are embracing cloud deployments for their application workloads. At the same time, an average-sized company uses between 10 and 16 cloud-based applications. Layer on the additional use of mobile devices, and an increasingly large percentage of corporate data traffic will flow to the cloud, extending the network perimeter.
Earlier in the month Ixia launched Flex Tap Secure+, which helps prevent accidental or malicious injection of data into a live network***. A tap basically 'listens' to the network data for monitoring purposes and would be considered a network visibility solution. Flex Tap Secure+ was designed specifically for business-critical applications, such as those supporting huge financial transactions daily, as well as governments and other organidations that need to ensure a high level of security for sensitive data. Flex Taps can be deployed at any inline connection on the network, and do not add extra overhead or management burdens to network devices.
IxVerify, the first software solution specifically architected to work in an emulation-based verification flow, was also launched around the same time. IxVerify, combined with the Veloce Virtual Network (VN) App, accelerates the pre-silicon verification**** of complex networking chips. By smoothing the transitions between simulation, emulation, and the lab environment for chip design IxVerify enables network equipment and chip manufacturers to reduce time to market, while minimising risk and development costs.
IxVerify provides predefined packet templates for testing Ethernet and TCP/IP protocols and is capable of generating high volumes of traffic. With its ability to run hundreds of virtualized test ports at once, it offers the unique ability to dynamically shape traffic to ensure zero packet loss at maximum emulation speeds.
“IxVerify is a major innovation for both the test and electronic design automation (EDA) industries,” said Sunil Kalidindi, VP of product management at Ixia at the time of the launch. “It extends Ixia’s intellectual property and test expertise into the EDA space, offering new and improved test methodologies that simplify pre-silicon testing and shifts testing ‘further-left’ into the development cycle.”
“Adoption of the Veloce emulation platform in the networking market continues at a rapid pace,” said Eric Selosse, VP and GM, Mentor Emulation Division. “Our integration with Ixia is an example of the forward-thinking solutions needed to verify today’s complex networking system on a chip (SoC) designs.”
*Cisco 2016 Annual Security Report
**IDC's latest CloudView Multiclient Study
***Ixia’s Flex Tap Secure+ helps eliminate a wide variety of potential situations that can result in data corruption or network disruption, including:
The Ixia EBC is unique as it emulates a variety of network environments and can run simulations with data traffic flows of any volume. At the same time, the closed data environment also makes the Ixia APAC EBC an ideal location for cyber range training sessions. “The Ixia Executive Briefing Center is unique and a highly valuable offering for IT professionals who struggle to run real-time stress-testing on their existing infrastructure, as well as simulate data breaches with the latest malware for training purposes,” said Naveen Bhat, MD for Ixia in Asia Pacific.
“Ixia has fitted our EBC with enterprise-grade hardware from the industry’s top vendors to offer our customers the most accurate simulation of both benign and malignant traffic to help prepare for such an attack.”
One of the top uses of the Ixia APAC EBC is expected to be cyber range training. A cyber range offers real world attack scenarios for cybersecurity exercises. Corporate IT teams can rehearse their roles and responsibilities under the strain of an attack, which can range from a zero day attack to a massive-scale distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack.
Zero day attacks involve hackers taking advantage of just-discovered vulnerabilities, before a patch is available to protect against them, while DDoS attacks overwhelm servers with more requests than they can handle. This level of cyber self defence capabilities can help business leaders address current security concerns - only 45%* of organisations worldwide have expressed confidence in their security posture.
A 2016 IDC multi-client study** further revealed that that more than half of the organisations surveyed are embracing cloud deployments for their application workloads. At the same time, an average-sized company uses between 10 and 16 cloud-based applications. Layer on the additional use of mobile devices, and an increasingly large percentage of corporate data traffic will flow to the cloud, extending the network perimeter.
Earlier in the month Ixia launched Flex Tap Secure+, which helps prevent accidental or malicious injection of data into a live network***. A tap basically 'listens' to the network data for monitoring purposes and would be considered a network visibility solution. Flex Tap Secure+ was designed specifically for business-critical applications, such as those supporting huge financial transactions daily, as well as governments and other organidations that need to ensure a high level of security for sensitive data. Flex Taps can be deployed at any inline connection on the network, and do not add extra overhead or management burdens to network devices.
IxVerify, the first software solution specifically architected to work in an emulation-based verification flow, was also launched around the same time. IxVerify, combined with the Veloce Virtual Network (VN) App, accelerates the pre-silicon verification**** of complex networking chips. By smoothing the transitions between simulation, emulation, and the lab environment for chip design IxVerify enables network equipment and chip manufacturers to reduce time to market, while minimising risk and development costs.
IxVerify provides predefined packet templates for testing Ethernet and TCP/IP protocols and is capable of generating high volumes of traffic. With its ability to run hundreds of virtualized test ports at once, it offers the unique ability to dynamically shape traffic to ensure zero packet loss at maximum emulation speeds.
“IxVerify is a major innovation for both the test and electronic design automation (EDA) industries,” said Sunil Kalidindi, VP of product management at Ixia at the time of the launch. “It extends Ixia’s intellectual property and test expertise into the EDA space, offering new and improved test methodologies that simplify pre-silicon testing and shifts testing ‘further-left’ into the development cycle.”
“Adoption of the Veloce emulation platform in the networking market continues at a rapid pace,” said Eric Selosse, VP and GM, Mentor Emulation Division. “Our integration with Ixia is an example of the forward-thinking solutions needed to verify today’s complex networking system on a chip (SoC) designs.”
*Cisco 2016 Annual Security Report
**IDC's latest CloudView Multiclient Study
***Ixia’s Flex Tap Secure+ helps eliminate a wide variety of potential situations that can result in data corruption or network disruption, including:
- An organisation mistakenly connects a passive fibre tap to an output port on a monitoring tool, causing data to be injected back into a live network.
- A government entity in a lawful intercept application is using a fibre tap to monitor a communications link, but the monitoring tool is wrongly configured or connected. This sends traffic via a tap back into the live network, allowing a third party being monitored to detect the traffic and realise that there is an intercept in place.
- A third party with access to an organisation’s unsecure data centre uses a conventional fibre tap to disrupt a live network.
****Pre-silicon verification refers to testing a chip design in various simulations to make sure it works as expected before actually creating the chip.
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