SCHWEITZER ENGINEERING LABORATORIES SELECTS MU DYNAMICS TO AUTOMATE PRODUCT FAMILY SERVICE ASSURANCE
Robustness, Reliability and Availability Testing For Complete SEL Product Family - Automated By Mu-4000 Service Analyzer
SUNNYVALE, CA – September
29, 2008 -
Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories, Inc. (SEL) today detailed the benefits of
deploying Mu
Dynamics' Mu-4000 service analyzer being used to reduce potential security
and robustness vulnerabilities for SEL's largest protection, control, and
automation systems. SEL's automated software
development lifecycle (SDLC) combined with the Mu-4000 service analyzer
accelerates the discovery, documentation and reduction of potential software
weaknesses in SEL's product portfolio that includes digital protective relays
and automation equipment.
In addition, SEL has selected the
Mu-4000 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. As a result, customers benefit
from robust, high performance systems built and tested to remain resistant to
unexpected weaknesses, system downtime and malicious hacker attacks.
"As a leading provider of the electric power industry's application
security, optimization and availability solutions, our global customers depend
on SEL products to maintain the highest levels of system availability,
reliability and proactive security," said Rhett Smith, security products development
manager at SEL. "By leveraging Mu's Service Analyzer throughout our
product development cycles, our teams have a new and critically important
capability to bolster our product reliability and design methodology to ensure
SEL products and updates are 'battle tested' and secure well in advance of
commercial shipment."
Dynamically-Generated Industrial
Control Service Level Traffic Variations Pinpoint Product and Service
Weaknesses
Mu's comprehensive solution streamlines SEL's quality assurance test bed processes and lowers total cost of
ownership by eliminating the need for additional, specialized security resources. As a result, SEL continues to accelerate its
time to market for new product features while improving key customer metrics
around operator uptime and device availability through the proactive service
assurance of its mission critical products.
Mu's automated service assurance methodology determines any product's
response to unexpected service level traffic variations, processes, data, and
access rights. As a result, potential
sources of reliability, availability or security weaknesses that could disrupt
service performance or cause product downtime can be detected automatically.
SEL customizes the Mu-4000 for its
product development, analysis and testing processes using dynamically generated
and unexpected service level traffic variations. For example, applying millions of DNP and Modbus network
traffic variations allows precise measurement of real-time SEL product
performance. This repeatable and
automated process ensures optimal application performance, as well as security
and robustness readiness throughout SEL's comprehensive product line. Mu's extensive suite of Industrial Control
service-level traffic is available over IPv4 or IPv6 transport. As a result, SEL is performing accurate and
automated regression, trending and "negative testing."
"There's a real tug-of-war
between business demands for ultra-secure reliable products and the competitive
pressures on Critical Infrastructure product vendors to accelerate the
introduction of new products and features," said Adam Stein, Mu Dynamics
vice president of marketing. "In many cases, these have been conflicting
demands. Savvy companies like SEL
recognize its operator customers have no room for compromise or costly system
downtime as tradeoffs for security readiness and product innovation. SEL's integrated application of the Mu-4000
showcases the considerable advantages of automating service assurance
throughout the product development lifecycle."
SEL Press Release
About SEL
SEL serves industry worldwide through the design, manufacture,
supply, and support of products and services for electric power protection,
monitoring, control, automation, data encryption, and metering. SEL offers
unmatched local technical support, a worldwide, ten-year product warranty, and
a commitment to making electric power safer, more reliable, and more
economical.
About Mu Dynamics
Mu Dynamics
proactively eliminates the high cost of service, application and network downtime. Mu's solution automates a systematic and
repeatable process that identifies hard-to-detect sources of potential downtime
within IP services, applications, and underlying networks. The award-winning Mu solution is deployed at
more than 100 locations, primarily at leading global service providers, cable
operators and network product vendors. Headquartered
in Sunnyvale, California, Mu is backed by leading venture
capital firms that include Accel Partners, Benchmark Capital, DAG Ventures and
Focus Ventures. http://www.mudynamics.com
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