The Cyrex team are very excited to announce an expansion to our load testing services bundle. This time our services are focused on security and availability instead of our traditional stability and scalability testing of the player journey. You can find a brand-new service page for it right here!  

More about Cyrex DDoS Testing Service

DDoS testing, while technically not a part of our traditional load testing, does utilize some of our existing Cyrex Swarm technology. At its core, Cyrex Swarm was capable of performing a DDoS simulation, we’ve just built on top of that base functionality even further.   

This newly expanded branch of our load testing suite now means our clients and partners will be able to evaluate their security, stability, scalability, and availability, all under one easy roof. Thanks to the integration capacity of Cyrex Swarm, ensuring your game is safe, secure, and stable, has never been easier!  

If you’re curious about our service but are a bit tentative at jumping into a new, evolving service? Have no fear! We’ve been conducting these DDoS tests for some time with several of our trusted partners. Over our load testing engagements, we’ve had multiple ad hoc requests from publishers and developers for DDoS tests. Considering Cyrex Swarm and load tests are technically more complicated, we only had to tweak the Swarm a little to deliver these more straight forward tests!  

What is a DDoS Test and Do I Need it?

A DDoS is a Distributed Denial of Service. It is a targeted, malicious attack conducted with the intent to deny services to users. This is typically done by shutting down a server or particularly key server infrastructure. It is a brute force wave of tickets, requests, and interactions conducted usually by bots or scripts.   

We’re talking about hundreds of thousands of requests a second, all with the intention of simply overloading the targeted system.  

Do you need a DDoS test? Almost certainly! It’s as essential as a load test when it comes to security and availability. Do you know how your system reacts or is designed to deal with attacks such as this? It’s important to understand how resilient your system is, allowing you and your team to benchmark your resistance to these types of attacks.  

What makes Cyrex DDoS Testing special?

DDoS testing isn’t exactly new! However, the Cyrex team have noticed a significant gap in the market. Just with our penetration testing services and our load testing services, the online games environment is sorely neglected.  

That’s why our DDoS testing suite can easily integrate to any standard multiplayer framework. Cyrex Swarm is designed to be out of the box compatible with any of the standard networking libraries, our DDoS tests are no different given they operate off of Swarm’s core.  

One final point is that we went through a thorough process with our resource provider for tests like these. Amazon Web Services, with whom the Cyrex team are a trusted partner, granted us the resources and approval we needed for tests of the appropriate scale. With these on board, we have been able to deliver DDoS tests where hundreds of thousands of requests a second can be simulated. If you’re looking to test your system against the best, you’ve found it.   

Please get in touch if you have a game or service that is in need of a DDoS or load testing service. Guarantee your security, stability, and scalability in this evolving digital world with the gold standard of load and security testing.