SECURITY TESTING TIPS

AND BEST PRACTICES

Robert Smithers

CEO, Miercom

Advantages of Using Spirent

• Measures the accuracy of application detection and classification engines

• Test the impact of security policies on application performance

• Provides benchmark scalability numbers of real users on the network

Advantages of Using Spirent • Identifies network capacity by simulating real-world application mixes and security attacks

• Showcases the application-aware capabilities of an intelligent network device

• Can be used for testing: • Adaptive Security Appliances

• Unified Threat Management Appliances

• Secure Web Gateway Appliances

• Session Boarder Controllers

Spirent and Check Point SWG-12600

• Avalanche NEXT generates traffic

on the network

• The DUT will detect, analyze and

assign a web application, to a

category for policy creation

• The application was connected to

a switch and the DUT Each

appliance was configured on a 1-

to-1 configuration, with one client

and one server

• The Check Point appliance also

was tested in a 50-to-1

configuration

Spirent

Avalanche NEXT

Spirent and Check Point SWG-12600

• Spirent’s Avalanche NEXT application offers a vast library of test methodologies

• Spirent Avalanche NEXT was used to test Secure Web Gateway efficacy testing- application control

Spirent Avalanche NEXT – an Asset to the Lab

•Superior performance, flexibility, realism

and optimization

•Service providers, product designers and

testing architects require the data provided

by Spirent Studio Performance