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Media Provider Enhances Cloud Security

Case Studies

This premier developer of entertainment software is renowned for creating some of the industry’s most critically acclaimed games. Their track record includes over a dozen #1 games and multiple Game of the Year awards. The company’s online gaming service is one of the largest in the world, with millions of active players.

 

Customers have high expectations of games from this label, so the company has begun hosting new games on infrastructure from a large public cloud provider. The flexibility of the cloud lets them quickly scale to meet the demand for highly anticipated new games. At the same time, they must rethink how they will manage security and optimize performance in an environment where they do not have access to packet-level data.

 

Maintaining Security in the Public Cloud

 

Hosting multi-player games in the public cloud exposes the company to web attacks, data theft, and fraud on a daily basis. Robust security solutions are needed to keep an attack from disrupting the online game experience, corrupting individual player histories, or stealing sensitive customer data.

 

In addition to a using a Web application firewall, the security team relied on intrusion detection systems (IDS) and forensics tools to identify anomalies in user behavior. Attacks are increasingly multi-level and the advanced algorithms of these solutions are used to detect complex threat signatures. The challenge was getting access to the packet-level data the solutions required. The public cloud provider offered a proprietary monitoring solution, but the security team did not believe it offered enough protection for the launch of a highly-anticipated new game. Working with their local cloud integrator, the company deployed Keysight’s cloud visibility solution to provide copies of cloud traffic data to their security solutions. A key advantage was being able to manipulate the data sent to each solution from a central location. This minimized the need for manual configuration and reduced the risk of error. And with application layer visibility, they could track user access and activity to detect security exposure such as changes to configuration files and stop attacks that may be in process.

 

Company:

•Provider of media and entertainment software

 

Key issues:

•Online gaming constantly exposed to attacks and malware

•Need way to identify malicious traffic and reduce impact to users and gaming experience

 

Challenge:

•Intrusion detection solutions require packetlevel data that is not accessible from public cloud providers

 

Solution:

•Keysight CloudLens platform for data visibility

 

Results:

•Ability to see data inside every cloud deployed

•Automatic deployment and scalability of visibility sensors Increased protection from attacks that impact game experience or expose customer data

 

Visibility Deployed Automatically

 

Because packet access was critical to the detection and forensics, the company wanted to make sure configuration errors were minimized. They were reassured to know that Keysight CloudLens is a fully distributed, container-based solution and is deployed automatically inside each new public cloud instance that is spun up.

 

• No additional infrastructure is needed, and no manual configuration is required.

• Visibility is automatically installed in each cloud instance and is consistent every time, eliminating configuration errors.

• Pre-validation between CloudLens and security solutions means copies of packet data immediately begin flowing to the IDS and forensics tools.

• Full inspection of cloud traffic begins at the same time cloud is deployed.

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