Ixia has launched its Asia Pacific Executive Briefing Center (EBC), in response to the increasing need for organizations to test, monitor, optimize and defend networks.
Located in Ixia’s Singapore headquarters, the new Executive Briefing Center is one of three such global centers and the first in Asia Pacific. The Ixia EBC is unique as it emulates a variety of network environments and can run simulations with data traffic flows of any volume. At the same time, the closed data environment also makes the Ixia APAC EBC an ideal location for cyber range training sessions.
“The Ixia Executive Briefing Center is unique and a highly valuable offering for IT professionals who struggle to run real-time stress-testing on their existing infrastructure, as well as simulate data breaches with the latest malware for training purposes,” said Naveen Bhat, Managing Director for Ixia in Asia Pacific. “Ixia has fitted our EBC with enterprise-grade hardware from the industry’s top vendors to offer our customers the most accurate simulation of both benign and malignant traffic to help prepare for such an attack.”
Cyber range training – a crucial exercise for corporate IT teams
One of the top uses of the Ixia APAC EBC is expected to be cyber range training. A cyber range offers real world attack scenarios for cybersecurity exercises.
Corporate IT teams can rehearse their roles and responsibilities under the strain of an attack, which can range from Zero Day to a massive-scale Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack. This level of cyber self defence capabilities can help business leaders address current security concerns. In fact, only 45 percentof organizations worldwide expressed confidence in their security posture.
Maintaining application uptimes crucial for success in cloud, virtualized, and mobile environments
A 2016 IDC multi-client studyrevealed that that more than half of the organizations surveyed are embracing cloud deployments for their application workloads. At the same time, an average-sized company uses between 10 and 16 cloud-based applications.
Layer on the additional use of mobile devices, and an increasingly large percentage of corporate data traffic will flow to the cloud, extending the network perimeter.
The Ixia APAC EBC will demonstrate ways to measure the quality of experience of these real-time, business-critical applications and share best practices for maintain performance in a reliable, fast, and secure manner.
The Ixia APAC EBC is a one-stop demonstration arena of Ixia’s end-to-end solutions for customers. It is also intended to facilitate industry interaction and the co-development of solutions with partners, and will promote learning and research on cybersecurity through seminars.