Case Study: a major financial organization achieves stronger malware detection and balanced performance with Spirent CyberFlood

Ensuring Best Malware Detection Efficacy at a Major Financial Organization

A major financial organization faced the challenge of validating the effectiveness of its new in-line security solutions against malware and exploits. They needed to ensure a high catch rate for threats while simultaneously maintaining 10Gbps of application traffic performance and low latency for their users, requiring a delicate balance between robust security and network performance.

Spirent Communications used its CyberFlood security and application performance solution to conduct an in-depth assessment. The testing process validated block/detect ratios against a database of over 100,000 malware samples and exploits, and then refined policies under load. Spirent helped the organization optimize its security policies, improving the catch and alert ratios while verifying the required application performance, thus achieving the desired balance between security efficacy and network speed.