Patent ID: 7991663

Claim:
A system for stress testing a financial database comprising: at least one subsystem stored in memory on one or more computer processors configured to receive a security protocol comprising data that describes how a fraud detection process running on a target database defines fraud; at least one subsystem stored in memory on one or more computer processors configured to generate a plurality of data packages, wherein the plurality of data packages simulate legitimate financial transactions; at least one subsystem stored in memory on one or more computer processors configured to generate at least one data package that includes a fraudulent financial transaction in accordance with the security policy; at least one subsystem stored in memory on one or more computer processors configured to transmit the plurality of data packages simulating the legitimate financial transactions, and the at least one data package that includes the fraudulent financial transaction, to the target database; and at least one subsystem stored in memory on one or more computer processors configured to monitor performance characteristics of the fraud detection process running on the target database.