A Network Security Lab Rebuilt From Code for Every Evaluation
The whole lab, recreated from code in under an hour for each evaluation.
Under 1 hour
To recreate the full lab from code
Terraform
Every component defined as code
Reusable
Modules used on other client work
The problem
A partner evaluating network-visibility tooling needed a realistic AWS environment to validate detection and monitoring configurations. Every evaluation cycle needed the same environment again, so it had to be repeatable.
What we built
Network and traffic taps
The VPC, subnets and traffic-tap agents, defined in Terraform.
Monitoring tools
Splunk, Security Onion and ntopng, deployed with bootstrap automation.
Detection test target
A traffic generator and a deliberately vulnerable web application for detection testing.
Reusable modules
A Terraform module library, reused across BeyondScale client infrastructure.
How the lab is rebuilt for each evaluation
Define
The whole lab is written in Terraform: the VPC and subnets, traffic-tap agents (Gigamon vTAP), Splunk, Security Onion, ntopng, a traffic generator and a deliberately vulnerable web application.
Bootstrap
Bootstrap automation sets up every component.
Evaluate
The partner validates its detection and monitoring configurations in a realistic AWS environment, using the traffic generator and the vulnerable application.
Rebuild
For the next evaluation cycle, the same environment is recreated from code in under an hour.
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