Kyle Flaherty

February 1, 2012
Getting Real With Firewall Testing: Fortinet FortiGate-5140B: The room was full that day in February 2009, everyone eager to witness what, at the time, would be the fastest public firewall test using stateful application traffic. Minutes later the BreakingPoint Storm CTM had put the Juniper SRX5800 through the paces, achieving 109 Gigabits per second (Gbps) of true application traffic. On that day the SRX5800 became the first network device tested with more than 100 Gbps of blended Layer 4-7 application traffic. During the past several years we've seen even more public firewall tests using real-world conditions, from a live test of the Cisco ASA 5500 during RSA Conference 2011 (the first with the BreakingPoint FireStorm CTM) using applications ranging from eBay to Facebook, to today's announcement concerning the Fortinet FortiGate 5140B.
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December 29, 2011
2011 Blog Rewind: Cyber Range Deployment: During the last two weeks of the year we are recapping some of the most popular topics covered on the blog during 2011. So far we have reviewed mobility testing, security research, DDoS, and now today, cyber range deployment. Cyber ranges are critical tools used to recreate cyber war conditions in order to harden IT infrastructure, train cyber warriors, and perform cutting-edge cyber security research.
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December 27, 2011
2011 Blog Rewind: Network Security Testing: During these last two weeks of the year we are recapping some of the most popular topics covered on the blog during 2011. Today we take a look at network security testing and blog posts that detailed some of the very latest in security research. The threat landscape continues to shift radically because we have to worry about more sophisticated attacks, evolved use of vulnerabilities, and an expanded target with the growth in mobile malware. This made for some very interesting blog posts.
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December 22, 2011
2011 Blog Rewind: DDoS Testing: Throughout the next two weeks we are recapping some of the most important topics covered on the blog during 2011. Today we take a look at the very latest DDoS attacks and how to test that your infrastructure can survive these threats. Below you can read about new application-layer DDoS attacks, how Korea Telecom hardened its infrastructure against these attacks, building a SIP INVITE flood, and much more.
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December 20, 2011
2011 Blog Rewind: Mobility Testing: Throughout the next two weeks we will be recapping some of the most important topics covered on the blog during 2011. Today we take a look at mobility testing, specifically the importance of massive-scale LTE testing. As we all know, telecom carriers are aggressively rolling out Long Term Evolution (LTE) or 4G networks. These promise increased performance for the end user but of course provide new challenges for equipment manufacturers and service providers.
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