MEF State of the Industry Report: SASE

The future of next-generation firewall technologies is in the cloud with SASE. To ensure your deployment delivers the promised flexibility, cost savings, simplification, performance, and protection, you need a new type of test tool.

CyPerf is an agent-based test solution that recreates every aspect of a realistic workload and security attacks like exploits, malware, and advanced threats across various physical and cloud environments. The solution delivers insights into end-user experience, cybersecurity posture, and performance bottlenecks of distributed networks. Test agents send application and attack traffic simultaneously through SASE solutions to validate the security efficacy of your SASE offerings and their impact on traffic performance.

Traditional networks with a defined perimeter are easier to defend than perimeter-less distributed cloud networks. Today’s networks commonly employ zero trust models, which assume you trust nothing and verify everything. Zero trust bases security on identity, not perimeter, and restricts any lateral network movement. Validating this complex infrastructure is challenging, so a completely new way to test network applications and security is necessary.

Until now, there was no way to test whether a firewall performs as expected in a distributed zero trust environment. CyPerf gives network equipment manufacturers (NEMs) a method to validate their products by replicating real-world traffic that mirrors their customer’s actual deployments. CyPerf also enables enterprise IT teams to proactively and safely test their distributed networks to ensure optimal performance and security as they add new devices, tools, and applications.

Organizations need to ensure smooth deployment of software-defined wide area network (SD-WAN) infrastructure over complex topologies like physically distributed branches, clouds, and data centers. Testing is critical to get it right. However, validating SD-WAN performance and security efficacy is challenging in today’s highly dynamic conditions, including numerous cloud and hardware variables.

CyPerf recreates every aspect of a realistic workload across a variety of physical and cloud environments to simplify the validation of software-defined wide area network (SD-WAN) solutions, the bandwidth performance, and quality of experience (QoE) of various SD-WAN topologies, and the security efficacy of SD-WAN security offerings.

In the rush to move to cloud networks, organizations are finding issues in rightsizing the cloud and optimizing costs while minimizing user disruptions. Testing the performance of elastic environments and isolating bottlenecks is also challenging.

Install Keysight’s CyPerf agents in cloud instances to benchmark application performance of cloud instances that involve switching, natting, or going through internet gateways to another cloud location (multi-cloud topologies) or on-premises (hybrid topologies). Leverage CyPerf’s ability to elastically scale up based on the policies of the auto-scale group, ensuring accurate measurement of the performance and security impact of elastic scaling up or down.