Write and Simulate Your Own Security Strikes for Vulnerability Testing

UPDATE: In Spring of 2010 BreakingPoint unveiled the pioneering Cyber Tomography Machine to help you with problems such as the ones described in this post. Read more.

Mike Hamilton of BreakingPoint is publishing a How-To guide on creating custom strikes.

This morning BreakingPoint announced the availability of the Custom Strike Toolkit, allowing users to write and simulate their own security strikes when testing network equipment and application servers. Below is some additional information from the news release that went out this morning.

• BreakingPoint provides network equipment manufacturers (NEMs), service providers and application server vendors with comprehensive vulnerability testing coverage including:
  • BreakingPoint Custom Strike Toolkit providing the ability to write your own security strikes to run on BreakingPoint’s hardware in a matter of hours.
  • Custom strikes are included in network simulation tests and can be blended with BreakingPoint’s 4,200+ critical security strikes and full Microsoft Tuesday coverage, along with 80+ application protocols and any protocols created with the BreakingPoint Custom Application Protocol Toolkit.
• BreakingPoint also provides Botnet Command & Control and Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) simulation, more than 80 evasion techniques and advanced protocol fuzzing.

Posted by Kyle Flaherty

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