Northrop Grumman UK Delivers Federated Cyber Range

Northrop Grumman deployed a single BreakingPoint Storm CTM™ in its Fareham, England-based Federated Cyber Range to deliver the industry’s most authentic Internet-scale test bed while remaining efficient, agile, and cost-effective.

Challenge: Emulate Network Traffic and Threats at Massive Scale

Northrop Grumman UK must help government agencies and commercial entities alike defend the most sensitive networks. Creating the conditions required to put them through their paces once required sprawling server farms and armies of personnel. The company needed an agile, cost-effective, and technologically advanced approach that avoided the pitfalls of legacy approaches.

Solution: A New Type of Cyber Range for a New Era of Challenges

The mandate to keep up with today’s fast-moving computing and threat landscape led the company to pursue an entirely new and innovative approach. It now uses a BreakingPoint Storm CTM to help it:

• Test and harden resiliency against advancing attacks and other high-stress conditions.
• Conduct cutting-edge cyber security research and development.
• Train cyber warriors to protect critical IT infrastructures.

“Leveraging BreakingPoint, we put customer infrastructures to the ultimate test. It’s the most effective way to predict if a network, application, or data center will be resilient against increasingly treacherous conditions.”

--Chris Durbin, Northrop Grumman Head of Cyber Security

Results: Internet-Scale Simulation to Design and Validate Advanced Cyber Defenses

By including BreakingPoint products and services in its cyber range, Northrop Grumman has the capability to defend customer networks, data centers, and applications against attack with a weapon that is:

• Powerful enough to assault every element of IT infrastructures with Internet-scale application traffic and attacks.
• Sophisticated enough to streamline test setup and provide instant access to the results.
• Authentic enough to emulate the countless unpredictable interactions of Web, mobile, and enterprise application users.
• Robust enough to create the massive traffic load that can suddenly hit servers during a traffic spike or denial-of-service (DoS) event.
• Immersive enough to enable cyber warriors to hone defensive skills and tactics.

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