Customer Use Cases
Network Security
Unified threat management (UTM) is the first line of security defense for many end customers. However, with the integration of many security applications, UTM vendors are often challenged to find the unintended vulnerabilities that lie dormant in their own code base because of the near infinite number of settings in combination of UTM applications: firewall, Web filtering, virus screening, spam filtering, intrusion prevention, and VPN.
With Mu, security vendors can efficiently test millions of variations on service traffic so that the entire analysis process is structured and repeatable. Vendors can ensure that their UTM products are thoroughly vetted for software weaknesses that could impact service before the product is deployed in a customer’s production network.
Router, switch, and storage
Next-generation network and storage infrastructure has more functionality – routing, switching, security, quality of service, virtualization, and more – and at higher speeds than ever before. As product vendors keep up with enterprises’ and service providers’ need for integrated functionality and higher capacities, it is paramount to ensure that vulnerabilities and weaknesses do not creep in.
Vendors depend on Mu to assist in their development environment and test implementations of key protocols such as TCP and BGP4. Mu helps the vendor harden the implementation of numerous protocol suites for a wide variety of product development efforts. Benefits include a noticeable decrease in customer reported new vulnerabilities on both product upgrades and newly released products.
IPv6 Networks
Mu offers a comprehensive solution to help product vendors streamline IPv6 service assurance. Since IPv6 is much more complex that IPv4, many product vendors have not yet mastered best practices in programming and deployment in native and transitional environments. Mu helps organizations methodically find and eliminate potential weak spots in new IPv6 implementations or deployments. Product vendors can use Mu to identify and remove both IPv4 and IPv6 weaknesses to ensure reliability, availability, and security.
Detecting distributed attacks and new spoofing techniques over IPv6 is much harder because of the larger address space of IPv6. Mu provides rapid identification and detailed auditing of IPv6 weaknesses before they cause costly downtime. Mu automates finding structural as well as semantic flaws across IPv6 implementations in hosts and routers, which may result from IPv6’s optional headers, which are more complex than in IPv4.
Critical Infrastructure
Critical infrastructure leveraging IP-based network architectures are often unknowingly exposed to more safety issues and ultimately, failures, in ways that were never possible before. Numerous process control and critical infrastructure products are deployed in the harsh real world, where they must incorporate protocol implementations that do more than simply comply with the letter of the standards. Mu is offering real-world certification to proactively measure these safety and reliability issues before they occur.
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