2008-08-29

BreakingPoint LiveLook: Hitting the Bullseye with UI Design

Dennis had another interesting interview this week, this time with James Magera about designing the user interface for the BreakingPoint testing solutions and his national ranking in Olympic-style archery. Pretty cool stuff; the UI and the archery.

 

Thanks for all the suggestions on who to film and keep them coming and if you prefer you can ping us on Twitter.

2008-08-27

BreakingPoint LiveLook: Talking Customer Support

Caught up with Greg Griffith here at BreakingPoint and chatted with him about his role in support and what that entails. If you are a BreakingPoint user you may have already worked with Greg to help you with our testing solutions.  Greg also chatted with us about his interests outside of providing support, including lending his film making skills to help us produce our test methodologies and his latest hobby...model rocketry.

2008-08-15

Botnet Simulation

The other day I asked Dennis about botnet simulation and he started to demonstrate it, so we figured we would film a screencast.  We ended up reviewing how to simulate a botnet attack using our testing tools. The screencast shows you how to combine application traffic and strike attacks to realistically simulate a botnet attack including the use of strikes such as denial of service and backdoor attacks using IRC. Enjoy:

2008-08-19

BreakingPoint Test Methodology for DPI Released

As we discussed last week BreakingPoint has created a detailed test methodology and video series that helps network engineers to test the DPI features of content-aware network devices. Just like we did with the IPS test methodology, you can view the videos and download the full methodology for your own use. DPI is certainly in the news a lot, and much of the coverage focuses on privacy concerns and P2P bandwidth shaping.

 

 

Here again is the intro video, than make your way over to our DPI Test Methodology and let us know what you think.

2008-08-22

BreakingPoint LiveLook: Engaging the Community

Today I decided to talk to Kyle our Director of Marketing at BreakingPoint. Kyle just joined the company a few months back and I really enjoy giving him a hard time for some unknown reason. We knew when we were starting BreakingPoint we wanted to market via the 'net and not traditional sources like magazines and tradeshows. Not to say we won't do those sorts of things, it was just that we wanted to be more about being online.

The online test methodologies, the screencasts, the large amount of product data available online, even this blog are examples of us focused on our communication over the 'net rather then traditional channels.