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In the News 
Mu Dynamics Develops Automated Test Case Methodology
Mu Dynamics, a start-up based in Sunnyvale, California, introduced a new "Mu Studio" that expands the breadth and depth of it flagship Test Suite by automating the creation and application of complex, custom and proprietary test case scenarios.
June 23, 2009
Mu Dynamics Defines VoIP/SBC Test Methodology
Mu Dynamics has published a "cookbook" of cooperative detailed VoIP testing methodologies providing best practices for product quality testing of Session Border Controllers (SBCs) throughout the software development life cycle.
June 23, 2009
Is IMS UC Friendly?
In addition to large interoperability plugfests for vendors, a new generation of testing and monitoring devices and software has arisen, such as Mu Dynamics Mu-4000 Analyzer that specializes in analyzing all sorts of VoIP deployments, enabling service providers to test millions of unique scenarios and gain better visibility into issues that can affect service availability. For VoIP implementations, the Mu-4000 supports H.323/H225.0/H.245 call signaling, SIP (including IMS endpoint functionality), MGCP (including NCS profile), H.248/Megaco (IMS profile), RTP/RTCP, and several dozens other protocols that are necessary for VoIP.
June 17, 2009
INTERNET TELEPHONY's 2009 TMC Labs Innovation Award Winners Announced
The TMC Labs Innovation Awards honor products that demonstrate raw innovation, unique features, and significant contributions toward improving communications technology. The TMC Labs Innovation Awards are granted to those companies demonstrating raw innovation, uniqueness, and representing a significant contribution to the industry.
June 15, 2009
How to Manage the Unexpected When Testing for LTE Readiness
As the mobile Internet continues to weave through the fabric of business productivity and consumer use, powerful smart phones, lightweight netbooks, social media outlets and interactive applications are a few tools facilitating the increasing demand for mobile broadband services.
June 2, 2009
Mu Dynamics Focuses on MPLS Data Services
As long as real-time network services continue to be the lifeblood of nearly every enterprise, operator and network product vendor, next-generation IP-based network services – such as VoIP or IPTV ( News - Alert) or any other service which may be based on IMS – will depend on underlying network infrastructures using Multi-Protocol Label Switching (MPLS).
Mu Dynamics to Participate in Cisco's Toolapalooza
While the California-based company’s efforts to help network operators and their vendors eliminate downtime through proactive service assurance expanded in 2008, Mu is expecting even bigger leaps this year. Today, Cisco noted that Mu will participate in Cisco’s Toolapalooza event next month in San Jose, California. The event runs April 22nd and 23rd.
March 6, 2009
How We Tested NEC's Unified Communications Platform
For this round of testing, the NEC Unified Communications platform was configured to provide a UC solution for a typical single-office environment enterprise installation. Security scans including open port scans, protocol interaction with mutated traffic [protocol fuzzing], common vulnerability exploit (CVE) tests, denial of service (DoS) and SIP torture tests were conducted using Miercom's test methodologies combined with the Mu Dynamics Test Suite.
February 9, 2009
The NGN IMS Forum Announces Plugfest 6 Results
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The Largest Heterogeneous IMS Network Ever Tested Spanning Four Continents
According to Thomas Maufer, Mu Dynamics' Director of Technical Marketing, "IMS Forum participants found it very satisfying to test a complete multi-domain IMS system for the first time at IMS Forum's Plugfest 6, including across multiple geographies, showing back-end systems and multiple protocols like SIP and Diameter. Our experience in expanding the Mu Test Suite's IMS testing capabilities also contributed to growing the reliability and security of products and services at IMS Plugfests -- as well as the growing maturity of IMS going forward."
February 3, 2009
IMS Adoption vs. NGN Application Growth: Where's the Revenue?
Operators have proven they can design such a network, but can it built to the scale of existing GSM networks and offer the reliability and availability that users have come to expect from their mobile devices? The right questions to ask now are more about ensuring robustness of the exploding IP application intelligence at the network edge rather than asking about whether such an architecture is feasible.
January 12, 2008
Unify Network Protection in the Enterprise
The Mu Dynamics unit tested the ability of the system under test (SUT) to protect a network from threats with published threat signatures even before patches are applied. Mu's Published Vulnerability Analysis (PVA) suite evaluates the ability of the SUT to protect against vulnerabilities rather than exploits, checking for currency and traffic patterns that may identify a new threat.
December 31, 2008
Mu Wins 2008 Unified Communications Excellence Awards
Unified Communications magazine bestows its Unified Communications Excellence awards on companies that have demonstrated excellence in technological advancement and application refinements. "Mu products and services have gone the extra mile to help improve both the customer experience and the ROI for the companies that use them,” said Rich Tehrani, TMC President and Group Editor-in-Chief of Unified Communications.
December 22, 2008
How We Tested 3Com's Unified Communication (UC) Solution
Miercom's benchmark test methodologies, incorporating the Mu Dynamics Test Suite, was used to test the Reliability, Security and Availability of 3Com's Unified Communication solution including open port scans, protocol interaction with mutated traffic [protocol fuzzing], common vulnerability exploit (CVE) tests, denial of service (DoS) and SIP server torture tests.
December 22, 2008
Mu Wins 2008 Industry Innovator Award for Analysis and Testing, Vulnerability Analysis
Mu’s Test Suite began as a way to test critical components of large networks,” said Dr. Peter Stephenson, SC Magazine contributing editor and Associate Program Director in the Master of Science in Information Assurance program and Research Professor at the National Center for the Study of Counter-Terrorism and Cyber Crime, both at Norwich University.. “Today, Mu's solution addresses those components, but it also looks at a bigger network picture as well. But for Mu, innovation does not stop there. This company hardly makes a move without socializing through a base of customers and, perhaps not-yet-customers.
December 3, 2008
A Whole New Testing Ballgame
Testing IMS and NGNs represents an altogether new challenge: new
devices, complex architectures, multiple services, security
considerations and more. Here's how service providers can get a jump on
it.
November, 2008
Mu Dynamics eBook — Uptime Guarantees Begin with Upfront Quality Assurance
Testing NGN services for providers with subscriber bases in the tens of millions requires automated, repeatable testing methodologies. This eBook illustrates the application of these methods to the complex services of 21st century communications, including the newest, and among the most complex: IPTV.
November, 2008
Mu Added to IDC Private Vendor Watch List
"We believe Mu Dynamics is a company to watch because:
The security of networks is increasingly critical and unproven, especially as telecom networks shift to IP-based networks.
Compared with open source tools in the "fuzzing" area, Mu offers automation, faster performance, and better reporting."
September, 2008
Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories Selects Mu Dynamics
SEL has selected the Mu Test Suite to automate its vulnerability auditing and remediation processes throughout its product development lifecycle that spans product design, development and deployment phases, as well as product upgrades and patches.
September 29, 2008
Mu Finds, Fixes Zero-Day Flaw in strongSwan
Mu Labs discovered that an unauthenticated anonymous attacker could crash a strongSwan-based VPN terminator or other IPsec device using only the very first IKEv2 packet.
September 22, 2008
Mu Fixes VPN Hole
Mu has discovered and helped remediate a dangerous 0-day vulnerability within strongSwan’s IKEv2 implementation.
September 22, 2008
BT Taps Mu Dynamics for DFTS Testing
BT chose the Mu Test Suite based on its systematic ability to quicken the reliable deployment of new services from initial vendor and equipment evaluation through systems integration and testing, according to a press statement.
September 9, 2008
BT Uses Mu
BT is using the Mu Test Suite to support the evaluation and testing of proposed services.
September 8, 2008
Consortium Targets 2009 for Cyber Security Compliance Testing
The group, an industry consortium affiliated with the Instrumentation, Systems and Automation Society (ISA), expects to produce a first draft of an embedded controller security assurance specification by mid-2009 with a full logo and certification to follow.
August 29, 2008
ABB presents security paper at PCSF 2008
The demonstration and presentation details the importance of reliability and availability — in addition to security — in preventing costly downtime and security incidents in Critical Infrastructure deployments.
August 19, 2008
Mu Dynamics Used Widely
Mu Dynamics gains widespread use among leading network product vendors; network operator use cases increase.
August 12, 2008
The Latest in Carrier Testing
As service providers grapple with providing more complex individual services as well as converged services, the need to test these systems grows as well. Providers need to ensure their subscribers receive high levels of service quality as well as reliability. One of the companies addressing the reliability of service issue is Mu Dynamics.
June, 2008
InfoSecurity Product Review: Mu Test Suite
Mu's solution generates executive summary reports and assigns a letter grade based on faults and performance issues. Detailed metrics include not only service or system crashes, but also response time problems and the particular attack traffic that caused each problem.
June, 2008
Mu Dynamics Introduces New DoS Module
Mu solution ensures service providers can identify and eliminate service, application and network downtime caused by DoS and Distributed DoS attacks.
May 28, 2008
Mu Helps Eliminate Network Downtime
Mu Dynamics has developed a new Denial of Service (DoS) Module for the Mu Test Suite, helping eliminate downtime, which can cost vendors up to $100,000 per hour.
May 21, 2008
Mu brings “Dynamics” to service assurance
Mu today announced a major change in its corporate strategy, as well updating its name to reflect a broader customer use case in NGN IP networked applications – Mu Dynamics.
May 19, 2008
Mu Moves on Services
The Mu crew have been selling their Mu Test Suite for two years as a vulnerability tester. Network operators and their vendor ecosystem use Mu's box in a test network to see how new equipment responds to attacks.
May 19, 2008
Securing IMS Networks and Infrastructure Products
IMS Forum Features Mu VP Marketing Adam Stein discussing the need for service assurance in IP Multimedia Subsystems (IMS) to reduce network operator service downtime and customer churn. This type of proactive service assurance is among the key efforts continuing at the IMS PlugFests and is also detailed in a recent collaborative IMS Forum/Mu whitepaper available online.
April, 2008
Asterisk mauled by buffer overflow bug
Buffer overflows - the perennial cause of security vulnerabilities in desktop applications - may become a worry for sys admins managing computerised telephone switchboards in the wake of the recent discovery of bugs in a popular IP PBX package.
March 20, 2008
Automated Negative Testing
Hardware and application software are moving to open standards and becoming more interconnected. They must be examined for underlying coding quality errors that could affect the customer’s service availability and security readiness.
March 15, 2008
Best Products 2008: Five network 'sleepers'
Network World's Test Alliance finds that Mu is onto something that we can't find in products from
competing vendors. Programmable and automated service assurance just got
a little easier. The Mu Test Suite works by offering both known and protocol-mutation attacks,
and then keeps the results in a database, allowing us to analyze
failures and expedite remediation.
February 25, 2008
Telecom Industry Association Features Mu's CEO, Discusses Service Assurance Requirements
Mu CEO Dave Kresse discusses how using the Mu Test Suite helps solve an operator’s service assurance problems by uncovering product weaknesses and vulnerabilities that would otherwise inflict costly Next-Gen IP application (e.g., VoIP, IMS, IPTV) downtime. Equally critical to both service providers and their vendors, the Mu solution helps customers automate a systematic and repeatable process to identify weaknesses that compromise the reliability, availability or security of services, applications and products on an IP network.
February 21, 2008
Tech Insight: The Buzz Around Fuzzing
Security researchers long have sworn by it, and now many enterprises, developers, and service providers are turning to an increasingly popular method of identifying security vulnerabilities: fuzzing.
February 1, 2008
How Network World tested Sourcefire's 3D System
To test IPS coverage, we used the Mu Test Suite, an attack generation and reporting system, from Mu Security. For the Mu portion of the testing, we focused on published or known vulnerability attacks. We wanted to compare performance between this IPS and other IPSs we had tested with the Mu Test Suite in a recent UTM firewall test
January 21, 2008
Mu Security's tool finds vulnerabilities before bad guys do
Deploying flawed software is expensive, and as more formerly internal-facing applications gain shiny new Web front ends, the need for secure coding practices is increasing. So how can you safely poke and prod your apps to see if they'll break -- or worse, open doors for attackers?
January, 2008
Internet Telephony Product of the Year: Mu Test Suite
Internet Telephony selects the Mu Test Suite for 2007 "Product of the Year" Award honors from nearly 500 applications. Winning entries demonstrated a commitment to quality and the continued development of the IP telephony industry.
January, 2008
Mu Test Suite: Security Gets Warm And Fuzzy
The Mu Test Suite lets IT sniff out software vulnerabilities before the bad guys do. Mu's solution is controlled via an easy-to-use interface for quickly creating/automating complex testing and analysis situations. While the cost varies depending on protocol sets purchased, discovering vulnerabilities and product weaknesses before deploying an products or applications could be priceless.
January 7, 2008
SC Magazine Innovators Award
SC Magazine Labs awarded the Mu Test Suite its 2007 Innovators Award based on reviewers continued product evolution and use within their labs as a benchmark for any networked product.
December 1, 2007
ABB controller achieves
Mu Security Certification
One of the first to achieve dual certification to leading industry cyber security standards, the ABB AC800M controller has achieved Mu Secure Industrial Control (MUSIC) Foundation-level certification.
December 6, 2007
Adding Domain Expertise…
Apropos of the ongoing discussion on the SCADA list about the need to
have domain expertise when you are working in cybersecurity, here's news
from Mu [...]
ControlGlobal, December 4, 2007
Mu Security Enhances Test Suite
The Mu Test Suite improves the reliability and uptime of networked products and IP business services by proactively addressing robustness and resiliency factors.
Automation.com, November 06, 2007
Mu Security Cranks Up the MUSIC
Mu Security, a pioneer in the test equipment market, has announced new Mu Secure Industrial Control (MUSIC) certification programs.
Control Global, November 2007
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June 6, 2007
One-minute "Jargon Buster" Videos
Converge! Network Digest
April 2, 2007
Mu Puts IP Equipment to the Test
Review: Mu Test Suite provides in-depth results in a relatively short amount of time.
Cameron Sturdevant, eWEEK
February 7, 2007
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