CyPerf

“Cloud-native cybersecurity testing for hybrid, multi-cloud, and encrypted environments.”

What is CyPerf?

Keysight CyPerf is a cloud-native, elastic test platform designed to validate the security, performance, and resilience of modern applications and infrastructures deployed across public cloud, private cloud, and hybrid environments.

Unlike traditional lab-based solutions, CyPerf runs directly inside cloud workloads (AWS, Azure, GCP, Kubernetes, VMware), generating realistic traffic patterns and attack simulations to test how applications, networks, and security tools behave under real-world conditions.

It complements BreakingPoint by extending advanced test capabilities into production-like cloud environments, ensuring organizations can validate security and user experience before, during, and after migration to the cloud.

Key Features

• Cloud-Native Architecture
  • Elastic agents deployed on VMs, containers, or bare metal.
  • Orchestrated from a central controller with full automation via APIs.
• Realistic Application Traffic
  • Emulates modern workloads: HTTP/S, SaaS, VoIP, video, API calls.
  • Supports encrypted traffic (TLS 1.3, QUIC, VPNs) to validate visibility and inspection capabilities.
• Security Testing
  • Simulates attacks including DDoS, brute force, ransomware, and evasion techniques.
  • Validates WAFs, NGFW, IPS, and cloud security controls.
• Elastic Scale
  • Dynamically scale traffic generation to thousands of concurrent users.
  • Test performance under burst conditions, migrations, or failover scenarios.
• Analytics & Reporting
  • KPIs: throughput, latency, jitter, packet loss, SLA compliance.
  • Security metrics: attack detection, mitigation efficacy, false positives.

Benefits for the Client

• Prove cloud resilience: validate performance and security of apps before production rollout.
• Mitigate migration risks: ensure apps and controls behave correctly after moving to cloud.
• Optimize security tools: benchmark WAF, NGFW, IPS across hybrid environments.
• Encrypted traffic validation: test how defenses handle TLS 1.3, VPN, QUIC traffic.
• Elastic scalability: run global, distributed tests at the scale of real user bases.

Why CyPerf is Different ?

• Cloud-native by design: built for AWS, Azure, GCP, Kubernetes, VMware.
• Elastic & on-demand: no hardware, fully software-driven deployment.
• Comprehensive coverage: performance + security + user experience in one platform.
• Complements BreakingPoint: lab + cloud = full-spectrum security validation.
• Continuous validation: can be run periodically or as part of DevSecOps pipelines.

Typical Use Cases

• Validate cloud migration projects to minimize downtime and risk.
• Test SaaS performance under load and attack conditions.
• Assess encrypted traffic handling for compliance and security efficacy.
• Run DevSecOps security validation as part of CI/CD pipelines.
• Benchmark multi-cloud resilience across AWS, Azure, and GCP.

Services & Support (What We Offer)

• Cloud Test Assessment – design CyPerf test campaigns for hybrid infrastructures.
• Deployment Services – install and orchestrate CyPerf agents across environments.
• Security Simulation Workshops – run realistic attack campaigns to test defenses.
• Integration – embed CyPerf into CI/CD and DevSecOps pipelines.
• Managed Testing – continuous validation as-a-service powered by CyPerf.