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News Releases

August 5, 2010
BreakingPoint Replaces Conventional IPv4/IPv6 Dual Stack Testing With Newly Published Methodology

BreakingPoint IPv6 resiliency methodology and solutions enable organizations to measure the resiliency of networks under the most current dual stack traffic

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June 10, 2010
BreakingPoint Publishes Server Load Resiliency Methodology

BreakingPoint Server Load Resiliency Methodology Measures and Optimizes the Performance and Stability of Servers, Data Centers and Cloud Infrastructures

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May 11, 2010
BreakingPoint Enterprise Solutions Group Helps Fortune 1000 Harden Network Infrastructure to Survive Crippling Attacks and High-Stress Application Load

Greg Jones joins BreakingPoint as vice president of enterprise sales, helping companies measure the performance, security and stability of networks, network devices and data centers

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Media Coverage

July 20, 2010
Stress-Testing Your Network

"Security-testing devices don't traditionally measure performance," says Avivi, who uses BreakingPoint to test Juniper's SRX Series Services Gateway appliances. "We started with BreakingPoint because of security and very quickly learned it could help us do stress testing under real traffic conditions."

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June 28, 2010
The Double-Duty Infrastructure

You should always plan for your worst case, says Des Wilson, CEO of BreakingPoint, a network testing device provider. That doesn't mean buy for your worst case, but you should know what your upper bound is. Wilson says that a common mistake organizations make when testing is to run a simulation that fails to closely approximate demand levels they will actually experience. It’s not just running a simple web-based protocol through there, says Wilson. Run 100 different applications through there, just like you see it on the network.

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May 3, 2010
BreakingPoint launches Storm CTM, offers resiliency scoring for tech | CivSource

According to BreakingPoint, Storm CTM essentially takes an x-ray of network and data center devices to find all of the different stress fractures, or problems in the system, and reports back with an overall score that allows the user to determine where vulnerabilities exist before they are exploited.

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April 29, 2010
BreakingPoint Systems makes advanced hacking simulator machine | NeoSeeker

Capable of massive simultaneous DDoS attacks, and attacks against switches, routers, servers, firewalls, and other similar aspects of system networks, the Storm CTM generates a sort of benchmark score after it has done its work. Using the score, a company running the machine can get an overall sense of the security of their network, and from there, use the results to help plan for enhancing security.

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April 28, 2010
BreakingPoint To Roll Out 'Cyber Tomography Machine' | DarkReading

BreakingPoint Systems on Monday will unveil a high-end network equipment testing product that measures the overall security and resiliency of a network to attack and heavy traffic by performing full-blown simulated attacks and applications: the new Storm CTM (Cyber Tomography Machine) also provides a scoring system for how the infrastructure performed under the duress of the tests. 

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