Network Security
Protecting networks against increasingly complex threats is one of the most critical challenges facing enterprises and service providers today. The market for security solutions is diverse and often difficult to navigate, with vendors presenting a wide variety of approaches, claims, and performance promises. To make informed decisions, organizations need independent, realistic assessments that go beyond marketing materials and reveal how solutions perform under real-world conditions.
EANTC provides independent, vendor-neutral testing and audits across a wide range of network security domains, including data centers, NFV and cloud environments, Internet gateways, and SD-WAN. Our services help customers understand and validate how security solutions behave in realistic scenarios.
RFP Evaluation and Proof of Concept
During the design and procurement phase, we provide comparative testing of candidate solutions such as next-generation firewalls, intrusion prevention systems, content filtering platforms, AI-based malware detection, and deep packet inspection tools. Our results guide procurement decisions with measurable, unbiased data.
Proof of Operation and Acceptance Testing
We design and execute end-to-end acceptance tests that verify the performance, resiliency, and integration of newly implemented security solutions. This ensures that deployments meet both technical and business requirements before they go live.
Network Security Audits
In production environments, we conduct tailored audits to validate existing security infrastructures. These audits are based on the specific architecture of each customer’s network and include compliance checks, resilience validation, and end-to-end threat simulations.
NetSecOPEN Certification
EANTC collaborates with NetSecOPEN and other industry initiatives to establish open standards for realistic and transparent security testing. Our methodology is based on replicating real-world conditions and attack patterns at scale.
We combine legitimate user traffic with malicious attack traffic to simulate the real dynamics of production networks.
We perform functional validation in parallel with large-scale performance testing, generating tens of millions of attacks per second and simulating hundreds of thousands of hosts.
We operate industry-leading, globally recognized test platforms, allowing customers to reproduce our results with confidence.
We tailor every test plan to the customer’s needs, designing custom attack profiles and stress tests to challenge solutions under realistic and extreme scenarios.
Benefits for Enterprises and Service Providers
Independent testing by EANTC provides decision-makers with a clear understanding of how different solutions perform in practice. Customers gain:
Reliable, fact-based selection of best-in-class security solutions.
Independent verification of security devices and services for compliance and performance.
Accurate capacity planning based on real limits and scaling behavior.
Reduced risk exposure through early identification and mitigation of vulnerabilities.
EANTC’s network security testing empowers organizations to deploy security infrastructures with confidence. By validating both the functionality and resilience of solutions in realistic conditions, we help enterprises and service providers protect their networks against advanced threats, ensure compliance, and build robust strategies for the future.