Ixia and NSS Labs team up

Ixia has announced a partnership with NSS Labs, a leading information security research and advisory company, to provide customers with the tools and knowledge needed to test and validate network security in their labs. In combination with Ixia’s award-winning security solutions, the new NSS Test Packs provide enterprises and equipment manufacturers the ability to find network security issues and failures in their own labs prior to deployment, saving time and costs.

Network security test cycles, in pre-deployment enterprise networks and in equipment manufacturer R&D, are critical to ensuring the resiliency of enterprise networks and the corresponding networking equipment. However, the traditional test cycles can be lengthy and expensive. Using Ixia’s security solutions along with the NSS Test Packs, enterprises and equipment manufacturers now have a streamlined way to benefit from the gold standard of testing to evaluate and test products for performance, resiliency and efficacy.

Ixia’s support for the NSS Test Packs provides customers both the expertise of what test methodologies are needed to ensure network infrastructure security and the technology solution needed to perform the tests. This combination helps customers speed time to market and use critical resources on their products – not on test development and cycles.

By using this joint solution and the initial Intrusion Prevention System and Next Generation Firewall test methodologies:
· Enterprises can now execute their own testing using the same proven methodologies used by NSS Labs to assess security, performance and resiliency in their network environments.
· Network equipment manufacturers can gain actionable insight on issues and test failure in their labs prior to the product shipping.
· Global service providers can test and verify that their large-scale and bandwidth heavy data centres are protected against attacks from today’s complex and evolving security landscape.