Case Study: Government Agency achieves stronger cloud security and faster DDoS response with Ixia CloudLens and BreakingPoint

Government Agency - Customer Case Study

A Government Agency that provides engineering services for physical infrastructure moved key applications to public cloud under a “cloud first” mandate, but needed a stronger security architecture to protect critical services and monitor for intrusions. The agency worked with Ixia, using Ixia CloudLens and Ixia BreakingPoint, to address the lack of packet-level visibility and to validate security in its cloud environment.

Ixia implemented CloudLens to provide application-layer packet visibility across cloud instances and BreakingPoint to run realistic security and DDoS simulations. The results were significant: security forensics reduced overall security risk by 50%, manual security testing effort dropped by one-third, and time to detect and contain DDoS attacks improved by nearly 50%. The agency also estimates savings of $41,000 per month on cloud-based security services.