Case Study: Yahoo! Japan boosts network security and traffic visibility with Ixia

Yahoo Japan Corporation uses Ixia’s NTO series to visualize their computer network security, extracting necessary traffic data via an intuitive GUI

Yahoo! Japan, one of the country’s largest Internet service providers, faced massive daily cyber-attacks across its large, distributed network and needed a better way to monitor and analyze traffic for stronger security. The company turned to Ixia’s NTO Series / Vision 5288 network packet broker to extract only the relevant traffic data from its complex infrastructure and feed it to security tools like IPS, IDS, and WAF.

Ixia’s Vision series gave Yahoo! Japan intuitive GUI-based filtering and traffic aggregation, making it easy to monitor attacks continuously and troubleshoot issues quickly. As a result, the company gained better visibility into incoming threats, reduced configuration errors, and improved its ability to detect and respond to security problems in real time.

Yahoo! Japan

Yusuke Tatsumi

Network Security Infrastructure Engineering Department Site Operation Division