Simulating a bot-net spanning a plurality of geographic regions

A system comprising:

• a first scan head comprising a first memory, a first processor, a first processing logic, and a first plurality of network cards in a home geographic region, wherein each network card in the first plurality of network cards is configured to send one or more network security testing requests to a remote server computer through a certain geographic region, of a first plurality of geographic regions, that is different than the home geographic region;
• a second scan head comprising a second memory, a second processor, a second processing logic, and a second plurality of network cards in the home geographic region, wherein each network card in the second plurality of network cards is configured to send one or more network security testing requests to the remote server computer through another particular geographic region, of a second plurality of geographic regions, that is different than the home geographic region;
• wherein the first plurality of geographic regions is different than the second plurality of geographic regions;
• a management computer comprising a memory, a processor coupled to the memory, and a management logic coupled to the memory, the processor, the first processing logic, and the second processing logic, wherein the management logic is configured to update a queue of objects, wherein each object in the queue of objects identifies a testing module of a plurality of testing modules, and one or more particular geographic regions;
• wherein the first processing logic is configured to:
• request, from the management logic, a front-most object in the queue of objects that identifies a first testing module and one or more first particular geographic regions that are included in the first plurality of geographic regions;
• execute the first testing module identified by the object, causing one or more request to be sent from the first plurality of network cards;
• wherein the second processing logic is configured to:
• request, from the management logic, a front-most object in the queue of objects that identifies a second testing module and one or more second particular geographic regions that are included in the second plurality of geographic regions;
• execute the second testing module identified by the object, causing one or more requests to be sent from the second plurality of network cards.

A method comprising:

• configuring a plurality of network cards in a home geographic region to send requests through a plurality of geographic regions that are different than the home geographic region;
• for each network card of the plurality of network cards, generating a geo-mapping, of a plurality of geo-mappings, that indicates a certain geographic region that the network card is configured to send the one or more requests through;
• generating a plurality of requests, and for each request of the plurality of requests:
• determining that the request should be received by a remote server computer through a particular geographic region based on a region-request distribution value;
• determining, based on the plurality of geo-mappings, that a particular network card of the plurality of network cards is configured to send requests through the particular geographic region;
• sending the request to the remote server computer through the particular network card;
• receiving one or more first parameters sent from a device;
• producing one or more second parameters based on the one or more first parameters, wherein the one or more first parameters are different than the one or more second parameters;
• producing one or more third parameters based on the one or more first parameters, wherein the one or more third parameters are different than both the one or more first parameters and the one or more second parameters;
• including the one or more second parameters in a first request of the plurality of requests;
• including the one or more third parameters in a second request of the plurality of requests;
• wherein the method is performed on one or more computing devices.