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"In order to provide our customers with the highest quality service and reliability, we use the Mu-4000 to ensure the equipment deployed on our network is thoroughly tested prior to placing it into production. "

Paul Farley
Director of Network Intelligence & Security Engineering
Cox Communications


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Service-Level Traffic Variations Analysis

Service-level traffic variations use protocol mutations designed to undermine the reliability and availability of a application, product or service and to expose underlying weaknesses. The Mu-4000 generates millions of service level traffic variations in a wide range of VoIP, IPTV, IMS and other widely-used application protocols. The variations embody a vast amount of knowledge gleaned through examining fundamental vulnerability patterns across protocols, by generalizing publicly known vulnerabilities and using our internal security expertise.

The dynamic service level traffic mutations generated by the Mu-4000 analyzer allow identification of previously unknown service weaknesses and vulnerabilities in a target application or device. Mu's customers launch millions of mutations against a network to proactively expose weaknesses and take action to remediate them before these issues lead to costly downtime.

What are Service-level Traffic Variations?

Mu offers a comprehensive suite of dynamically-created variations, along with intelligent automation for isolating application, service or product weaknesses. Typical variations include:

  • Correctly formatted message received in the wrong state
  • Semantically incorrect messages from a broken implementation
  • Messages that structurally malformed
  • Packet flows that are incorrect due to the actions of intermediate devices (dropped, corrupted, badly fragmented, truncated, reordered, etc.)

The dynamic mutations deliver a set of variations generated based upon an operator's service, application or product configuration as well as the responses from the service.  Vendors select their variations based upon building the highest  quality into their products.  This allows the variations to be precisely tailored to the service being analyzed. 

Traffic Variation/Mutation Explorer

The Mu-4000 also includes an interactive Explorer that lets the user direct interactions with the live service interface(s) to hone in on correct settings while receiving precise feedback and information on where communication failures occurred and exposing all traffic details for both sent and received traffic. Once correct configuration options are established, the user can save them as a reusable template or can immediately create an analysis using those settings.

What is Adaptive Analysis?

The Mu-4000 separates the traffic it generates, from the channel over which it is delivered in a technology known as Adaptive Analysis. Adaptive Analysis allows the Mu-4000 to seamlessly deliver its traffic over any valid transport and authentication methods supported by the service.

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