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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.

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.

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.

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. 

Enterprises should allow employees their choice of mobile devices in the enterprise, but policy must be clearly communicated, outlining rules and the consequences for violating them, according to panelists taking part in a spirited discussion on mobile device security at InfoSec World 2010. The risks need to be considered by an organization's security staff, said Scott Register, director of project management at BreakingPoint Systems Inc., based in Austin, Texas.

BreakingPoint was selected as one of the Best of FOSE award winners at the 2010 show beating out hundreds of other companies.

BreakingPoint Systems today unveiled a new approach to objectively measure the resiliency of network and security equipment, putting an end to data sheet speculation. The BreakingPoint Resiliency Score provides an objective, repeatable and scientifically measured certification of the performance, security and stability of any network or network device.

Now, a pop quiz. What undergoes more inspection and certification under real-world scenarios, that fridge or the network infrastructure holding up your favorite social network? It’s the fridge. The result of course is that Twitter (or name your favorite social site) not only has difficulty performing, but continues to be a harbinger of nasty malware and viruses.