Case Study: Northrop Grumman achieves cyber range resiliency and scalable attack simulation with Ixia BreakingPoint

Northrop Grumman UK Leverages BreakingPoint to Deliver Federated Cyber Range

Northrop Grumman UK, a division of the global aerospace and defense company, needed to harden the resiliency of critical IT infrastructures against sophisticated cyber attacks and high-stress conditions. Their challenge was to find an efficient way to conduct cutting-edge security testing, research, and cyber warrior training without the massive resource requirements of traditional server farms and large teams. To address this, they turned to vendor Ixia and its BreakingPoint product.

Ixia's BreakingPoint solution provided a massively scalable and automated platform to simulate real-world internet-scale traffic and over 35,000 security attacks. The implementation of a single BreakingPoint device enabled Northrop Grumman to accelerate test setup from weeks to hours, emulate tens of millions of users, and gain instant insight through integrated reporting. This provided a cost-effective, agile, and ever-current tool for defending customer networks and training personnel, ultimately predicting how infrastructures would perform under the most treacherous conditions.

Northrop Grumman

Chris Durbin

Cyber Security, Northrop Grumman’s