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BreakingPoint pioneered the world's first Cyber Tomography Machine (CTM), a cybersecurity product designed for an interconnected world inundated with escalating network traffic and cyber attacks from a growing list of enemies. A CTM is the only product that allows you to pinpoint previously impossible-to-detect vulnerabilities and stress fractures in network components such as routers, switches, firewalls, servers and data centers before they are exposed and wreak havoc in your critical network infrastructure.

 

The problem with cybersecurity: a global network infrastructure rotting from the core

Global networks are under attack by a wide range of enemies including nation-states, criminal gangs, and hackers. At the same time, this cyber infrastructure is being hit by high-stress application traffic that continues to evolve in complexity. The global network infrastructure relied upon by our governments, enterprises and service providers was never validated to be impervious to this high-stress and malicious traffic, and it is now crumbling

No company or organization is impervious to cyber attack or downtime caused by high-stress load. Recently, the New York Times reported that a breach of Google may have reached its password system. Global financial services companies, communications networks, and even the United States Department of Defense all feel the crippling effects of brittle networks. The time has come to examine the root of the problem: the deployment of billions of dollars worth of devices and applications that are not resilient to real-time cyber attacks or real-world application load.

The issues: perilous interconnectivity and increased liability

Our world has become increasingly interconnected. Estimates show we will see more than 1 trillion connected devices by 2013. The benefits of this interconnectivity are readily evident, however it is also perilous with the growth of widespread vulnerabilities and escalating attacks that morph to evade detection.

Years of neglect of the performance and security of network infrastructure devices has left us all exposed to cyber exploitation, theft, and acts of terrorism. The risks are only escalating as we witness the theft of billions of dollars and vital intellectual property, as well as increased legal liabilities and threats to national security.

The companies that should be helping with the problem, test vendors, are mired in legacy thinking, believing that their old methods based on simple and megabit-driven networks would translate to testing gigabit and content-aware networks. Security is often considered “voodoo” and not as a deterministic science that can be properly measured and then addressed.

The solution: hardening the core through Cyber Tomography

Cybersecurity is a complex and dynamic discipline filled with more "voodoo" and rhetoric than science and action. While testing product vendors are mired in legacy behavior, our governments are demanding more realistic validation of what they call the, "resiliency of cyber infrastructure". Enterprises and service providers are demanding resiliency, and need the technology and methodologies that allow for efficient detection of previously hidden weaknesses and vulnerabilities in their networks.

BreakingPoint has provided the solution by pioneering the world’s first Cyber Tomography Machines (CTM). Cyber Tomography ushers in an era of true measurement of the performance, security and stability of cyber infrastructure devices and systems. Until now, there was no way to determine how key components of a global network would hold up under crippling conditions, including cyber attack and high-stress application load.

Cyber Tomography provides a scientific method of identifying the weaknesses and vulnerabilities of a cyber infrastructure component by measuring its resiliency under cyber attack and high-stress traffic load. Cyber Tomography like the medical computed tomography (CT) scan, which allowed physicians to visualize the inner workings of the complex human body to detect impossible-to-see abnormalities, is a breakthrough in cybersecurity. BreakingPoint’s Cyber Tomography Machines (CTM), emit extreme application and malicious traffic into network devices and systems while recording and displaying the effects over time.

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