Cybersecurity Test & Assurance

The dynamic landscape of telecommunications, bolstered by innovations like cloud computing, edge computing, quantum computing, and AI, presents both significant opportunities and new security challenges. These technologies enhance efficiency and service delivery but also increase vulnerabilities, including unsecured APIs, container-based flaws, data breaches, and cloud misconfigurations. Addressing these security risks is crucial for maintaining resilient networks. APIs, vital for service interoperability, can become significant vulnerability points if not secured. Leveraging AI enhances API security by detecting unusual patterns and potential threats in real-time. AI also plays a broader role in advanced threat detection, analyzing vast data to identify anomalies and predict breaches, enabling proactive defenses against sophisticated cyber threats.

The need for improved operational efficiency, performance, agility and consistent security is driving the next wave of network transformation. This can be a challenging task, where each organization is following a different path based on their needs. Along with the benefits comes increased complexity, making it essential to adopt a new approach for testing and monitoring to ensure successful deployments and service rollouts.

Deploying and managing next generation security solutions with antimalware, deep packet inspection, and comprehensive security policies can be a daunting task. Customers are often stuck between the myriad of potential policies and configuration possibilities to determine how well they protect and perform. Read this case study to learn how a major financial organization managed to handle the demand of their internal and external customers for high application availability while simultaneously ensuring that the systems and applications at this organization are protected with optimal security policies.

Validating that network services are secure and perform as expected in real-world production environments doesn’t have to be insanely complicated. Get access to on-demand, accurate, realistic testing, and validation—before, during, and after deployment—from one vendor. Spirent test solutions offer tangible metrics about the performance and resilience of the test environment, including SD-WAN, SASE / Zero Trust, 5G, and more.

5G is a limitless market opportunity—if you can reduce the risks for end users, your supply chain, and your business. As one recent analyst report reminds us, “Trust is the foundational principle for technology adoption.” Yet trust is an elusive commodity in developing secure 5G use cases. The complexity of 5G security is so overwhelming that it actually creates a new form of risk: inertia. If your business cannot solve the security challenges of 5G, it risks falling behind and incurring the opportunity costs of inaction. At the same time, there is urgent pressure to deploy new services quickly, compounding the risks.