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DATA SHEET
Threat Simulator — Breach and
Attack Simulation Platform
Continuously Measure, Manage, and Improve your
Cybersecurity Effectiveness
Problem: Underutilized Security
Investments Due to Lack of Proper
Security Metrics
With so many “bad guys” on outside trying to breach into
your network, a multitude of insider threats and many
emerging threats, there is no surprise organizations are
facing the ideal conditions for a security breach. All those
risk factors are combined with a big human element
that assumes everything has been setup and configured
properly to get the best outcomes from each security tool.
So, the way usually organizations have responded to this
problem was to throw more money at it, buying more new
security tools increasing the management complexity.
But, the real problem behind all those things is that it
has been extremely difficult to effectively measure your
security posture. And when you can’t measure security, it
becomes harder to manage and improve it.
The result is that you can’t quantify the risks to your
business, or the return on your security investment, or
understand how to optimize it.
Highlights
• Safe and cost-effective way to measure and
validate your security effectiveness of your
production network
• Patented recommendation engine provides
clear, actionable insights on how to
remediate identified gaps
• Enables you to perform automated breach
and attack simulations on a regular basis
• Eliminates the assumptions that security
controls are deployed and configured
correctly
• Identify environment drifts
• Active validation of all phases of the Attack
Life Cycle
• Reduces compliance audit time with data-
driven evidence
• Prove security attacks are properly identified
and reported
• Justify current and future IT spending
• Always up to date
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Solution: Proactive, Continuous Security Validation
To ensure a strong defense, organizations need to embrace an offensive approach that
employ breach and attack simulation software to continuously verify their Enterprise-
wide security controls are working as expected and are optimized for maximum protection.
With Ixia’s Threat Simulator, Enterprises can measure their security posture, gain
insights into the effectiveness of their security tools and obtain actionable remediation
steps to improve it.
With this data, you can start optimizing the existing security solutions so that you can
improve your security without adding another expensive security solution.
Ixia Threat Simulator™ builds on 20+ years of leadership in network security testing to
reveal your security exposure across public, private, and hybrid networks. The ongoing
research of our Application and Threat Intelligence team ensures regular updates so you
have access to the latest breach scenarios and threat simulations.
Key features
• Validation-as-a-Service through a Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) – consume it with
your browser, no software to install, always up to date
• Offers a flexible cloud-based breach and attack simulation platform that scales as
your network grow
• Actionable remediation recommendations help you improve and optimize your
security controls
• Light, container-based software agents are infrastructure agnostic allowing
operations on-premise, private and public clouds
• Minutes to the first security insight
• Fully managed “Dark Cloud” infrastructure to simulate external hackers, malicious
hosts and C2C in the public domain
• It offers a modern, easy to use web-based interface
• Built-in integration with top network security controls and SIEM tools
• Diversified library of threat vectors, attack techniques and data exfiltration methods
• Out-of-box experience to simulate the full infection Killchain for popular breaches
and APTs
• Scheduler to enable continuous security assessments across your Enterprise-wide
network
• Elastically scales Threat Simulation agents
• SIEM-proxy agent facilitates communication with SIEM tools