Mike Hamilton

When I was a kid growing up, Putt Putt was the place to be. Miniature golf, bumper boats, go-carts, and arcade games could all be had at one location. In order to play the arcade games, though, you had to have special tokens. Regular coins simply didn’t work. Well, today I want to write about a specific type of token in the BreakingPoint Storm CTM and how to use it to achieve a very specific goal. In an effort to provide our customers with every available avenue to achieve the most realistic simulations possible, we began adding what we call tokens to our device starting with firmware release 1.4. These tokens are special identifiers that may be placed in Super Flows, where they get replaced by very specific data patterns in real time during a simulation run. This functionality is straightforward to implement, yet highly useful for various tasks including Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) URL filtering, Domain Name System (DNS) resolution validation, and keyword identification.

BreakingPoint supports hundreds of application protocols, including some you may never have heard of. For protocols we don’t already cover, our Application and Threat Intelligence (ATI) team is always ready to deliver new protocols at our customers’ request. Sometimes, though, customers may want to keep what they’re working on under wraps. In these situations, a great way to properly test resiliency is to use the BreakingPoint Custom Application Toolkit to reverse engineer the protocol in question. This guide will show you how to do this on the BreakingPoint Storm CTM.

This morning I found myself very frustrated as I attempted to fill out my expense report.  Keeping track of expenses is a painful exercise. You must remember to get receipts, remember to save those receipts, keep those boarding passes and submit the report in a timely manner.  Let’s face it.  It is an enormous pain.  Here is where my American Express card typically saves the day. But not today, when their site could not handle the load.