Spirent Gives Customers a Head Start in Validating and Testing New Transport Layer Security (TLS 1.3) Infrastructure
September 14 2017 - 8:00AM
Business Wire
First to Offer Security Testing for TLS 1.3
with Advanced Fuzzing
Spirent Communications plc (LSE:SPT) today announced an
update to its flagship security testing solution, CyberFlood,
making it the industry’s first security test product to support TLS
1.3, a new encryption protocol that will improve security and
privacy for internet users everywhere. This CyberFlood Advanced
Fuzzing update provides support for TLS 1.3 draft-19, draft-20, and
draft-21 — a capability Spirent was the first to demonstrate
in July 2017 at Black Hat USA.
Transport Layer Security (TLS) is the underlying technology that
enables secure communication between web browsers and servers on
the internet. Customers are anticipating TLS 1.3 because of the
dramatic improvements in efficiency and security it will bring,
optimizations to help address the rising tide of
performance-slowing encrypted internet traffic and the fact that
the last encryption protocol update was standardized nearly a
decade ago. The current version, TLS 1.2, is supported by most
browsers and HTTPS-enabled web services. Spirent is enabling its
customers to be TLS 1.3-ready by supporting early drafts of the new
standard prior to ratification. The Internet Engineering Task Force
(IETF) standards body is expected to finalize TLS 1.3 later this
year.
“TLS 1.3 encryption represents a significant leap forward in
both security and performance for web communications,” said Scott
Crawford, research director, information security, 451 Research.
“By implementing and testing TLS 1.3 in their solutions, vendors
can begin offering better protection for the high-value data often
communicated by internet products and services against
cyber-attacks that have evolved since the previous standard was
ratified.”
With CyberFlood v17.2.1, network equipment manufacturers and
service providers as well as others implementing this new standard
will be able to test and validate their TLS 1.3-supported network
devices and endpoints before going to market, thereby protecting
their customers from vulnerabilities and software defects — even
before TLS 1.3 is officially ratified as a market standard.
“As the first to market with fuzz testing for TLS 1.3, Spirent
is extending its leadership in security testing and validating the
way the world communicates,” said David DeSanto, director of
products and threat research at Spirent Communications. “The
industry is ripe for an encryption protocol update, and our
customers are relying on Spirent to provide them with the realistic
preemptive intelligence that ensures their TLS 1.3 implementations
are stable, reliable and secure before they go to market.”
Security and Performance
CyberFlood expands its performance with support for the Spirent
C100-S3 appliance with 100G (NIC-64). This combination allows
CyberFlood to provide line-rate performance testing to
validate next-generation higher-speed Ethernet security and
network infrastructure solutions. With up to 150 Gbps of
application traffic capacity and over 70 million open connections
on a single appliance, the C100-S3 combined with CyberFlood gives
users the needed performance and test capabilities to prove out
data-center and carrier-class networking solutions.
CyberFlood extends its mixed traffic testing capabilities,
allowing users to increasingly stress their network devices and
infrastructure. CyberFlood Throughput with Mixed Traffic allows
users to customize included protocols as well as custom configure
SSL/TLS settings. The result is near line-rate mixed application
and protocol traffic testing with strong encryption and cipher
suites while maintaining over 60 percent encrypted
communication.
Availability
CyberFlood v17.2.1 is available today to Spirent’s customers via
a simple upgrade that is downloadable from the Spirent Customer
Support Center.
About Spirent Communications
Spirent Communications is a leader in assessment, validation and
monitoring solutions that test and verify the performance and
security of enterprise network and application infrastructures in a
broad range of environments, including enterprise, IoT, automotive,
mobility and critical infrastructures. Global 2000 customers in
government, industry, healthcare, and financial services employ
Spirent Security products and services to ensure an unsurpassed
service experience while reducing churn, increasing revenue and
strengthening market share. For more information about Spirent
Security solutions and services, visit
www.spirent.com/security.
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