Spirent Enhances Security Testing

ROCKVILLE, Md. -- Spirent Communications(TM), a wholly owned business group of Spirent plc (NYSE:SPM) (LSE:SPT), today announced a distributed denial of service (DDoS) Attack Module for its Avalanche/2200 system. The new software further strengthens Spirent's portfolio of security test systems and provides network equipment manufacturers, service providers and enterprises with the assurance that their networks can survive even the most debilitating attacks. DDoS attacks occur when many hosts act in a cooperative manner to perform a joint denial of service attack, increasing the potential for overrunning the network dramatically. Spirent's DDoS Attack module helps proactively validate security features by simulating large-scale attacks, allowing users to easily modify the types of attacks and test in various scales. "We continue to extend the breadth of our L4-7 protocol coverage by supporting testing for malicious traffic such as DDoS Attacks," said Roy Chua, director of product marketing for Spirent Communications. "The Avalanche DDoS Attack Module has been successfully used by government agencies charged with strengthening the national networking infrastructure against cyber-terrorism. These agencies can quickly and easily analyze the effectiveness of their security solutions against large scale DDoS attacks, accelerating the time to deployment of such solutions." Spirent plc