Media Coverage

• BreakingPoint Rolls Out Resiliency Score For Hardening Cyber Infrastructure | Dark Reading (Mar 10, 2010)
  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.
• Social network security: Where is the outrage? | ZDnet (Mar 08, 2010)
  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.
• BreakingPoint Increased Revenue Almost Three Times | Sina (Mar 01, 2010)
  BreakingPoint Increases Revenue 280 Percent in 2009, Achieving 8 Consecutive Quarters of Record Revenue Growth
• BreakingPoint Achieves Impressive Bussiness Growth; Revenue Increass Almost Three Times | ZDnet (Mar 01, 2010)
  BreakingPoint increases revenue 280 Percent in 2009, achieving 8 consecutive quarters of record revenue growth
• Can Business Join the Cyber Crime Fight? | AOL Business (Feb 25, 2010)
  One such business is BreakingPoint, a Texas-based company that has been providing cyber security simulation equipment to help verify the resiliency of networks for the past 2 1/2 years. Can businesses really be viable providers of cyber security and break into the market? "It's being done every day!" says Des Wilson, CEO of Breaking Point. "The [hacker] problem is not going away."
• BreakingPoint claims 280% growth in '09 | Austin Business Journal (Feb 24, 2010)
  "Our success in the past year is a springboard to what we will be accomplishing in 2010, when BreakingPoint will transform the cyber security industry," BreakingPoint CEO Des Wilson said. He said the company will unveil a new line of technologies, products and services in 2010 and in coming years.
• Network security suffers from lack of innovation, IPS pioneer says | Government Computer News (Feb 10, 2010)
  Dennis Cox, co-founder and chief technology officer of BreakingPoint, has 15 years of experience in developing high-performance network devices such as intrusion detection and prevention systems and DSL devices. He also has worked with TippingPoint/3 Com and NetSpeed/Cisco Systems. He is an authority on content-aware networks and network equipment testing and is the author of several patents on subjects including IP spoofing, denial of service to network processors, dynamic construction of packet classification rules, and multilevel packet screening. Cox spoke recently with GCN senior writer William Jackson about the challenges of network defense.
• Fifteen significant social media & security events of 2009 | ZDnet (Dec 15, 2009)
  “We are going to see a lot more of the same in 2010 in terms of social networking and security issues, specifically a lot more privacy leaks and data leakage,” said Dennis Cox, CTO and co-founder of BreakingPoint Systems, a provider of performance and security testing tools. “But I also see that hijacking of accounts is going to be much more prominent, particularly with celebrities, executives of large public companies and politicians who have a lot to lose.”
• Cisco Becomes The Weakest Link In National Infrastructure Security? | Baidu's SecWay (Sep 29, 2009)
  Dennis Cox from BreakingPoint Systems has a great blog post on Cisco's security update scheme. I'd personally recommend all of you to read it.
• Cisco Becomes The Weakest Link In National Infrastructure Security | Security Focus (Sep 29, 2009)
  Last week Cisco released patches in their semi-annual security announcement. The publication includes 11 advisories that address 12 individual vulnerabilities. Ten of the advisories address vulnerabilities in Cisco IOS and one advisory addresses a vulnerability in Cisco Unified Communications Manager. Together these can affect routers and switches that not only use the Cisco Unified Communications Manager, but any device relying on the Cisco IOS operating system. To put it bluntly, this means a ton of devices critical to any network and these vulnerabilities leave businesses and government agencies exposed to a barrage of attacks including denial-of-service (DDoS) or policy bypass.
• Security Featured Article: BreakingPoint Launches Custom Strike Toolkit Which Enables Users To Write And Simulate Custom Security Strikes | TMCnet (Sep 09, 2009)
  BreakingPoint has launched a Custom Strike Toolkit, which will enable users to write and simulate their own security strikes when testing network equipment and application servers. BreakingPoint accelerates the development and testing of high-performance content-aware network equipment with its application, performance and security testing tools.
• BreakingPoint Elite新增30多种功能 | ZDnet China (Sep 09, 2009)
  日前，业界领先的网络应用和测试公司——BreakingPoint Systems(美国必锐博系统公司)宣布推出当前最先进的应用、性能和安全测试工具——BreakingPoint Elite的最新版本。
• Three Better Ways of Doing Networking | NetworkWorld (Aug 06, 2009)
  IPv6 is really cool and offers many benefits but getting there is not easy. As proof, I offer this great blog entry from the mega brains at BreakingPoint Labs on their attempts to realistically deploy IPv6.
• BreakingPoint拒绝服务攻击测试指南 | TTIAN (Aug 06, 2009)
  日前-网络应用和安全测试公司--BreakingPoint Systems（美国必锐博系统公司）发布了独立的安全弹性测试工具包，包括详细的分布式拒绝服务（DDoS）攻击模拟和应用协议缺陷测试方式指南。此外，BreakingPoint公司还发布了对FIX、Encrypted　BitTorrent、Oracle等应用协议的理解，以帮助用户更好地了解和把控性能和安全测试的信息和方向。今天的网络设备的测试要求模拟最真实的网络环境，包括Botnet、应用缺陷、分布式拒绝服务（DDoS）等，BreakingPoint完全满足上述测试需求。
• BreakingPoint First to Deliver Dual Stack IPv4/IPv6 Testing Capabilities and Support for Current IPv6 Standards | CIO Ulitzer (Aug 06, 2009)
  Only through testing IPv6-aware firewalls, intrusion detection systems and other network devices using both IPv4 and the most current IPv6 traffic, can you certify device resiliency and meet mandates for IPv6 compliance.
• BreakingPoint First to Deliver Dual-Stack IPv4/IPv6 Testing Capabilities | IPv6 Portal (Aug 06, 2009)
  The current blend of IPv4 and IPv6 network traffic can have serious repercussions on network device and application server performance and security...
• BreakingPoint Adds Pioneering Features for Debugging 10GigE Devices | TMCnet (Jul 28, 2009)
  BreakingPoint unveiled today new capture and recreate functionality that enables QA and R&D engineers to more efficiently conduct 10GigE testing. 10GigE devices provide a unique challenge during debugging due to the immense amount of data flowing from the device.
• Juniper Networks to Demonstrate High-Performance Networking Solutions at Interop Las Vegas | TechShow Network (May 15, 2009)
  BreakingPoint Demo at Juniper Booth #2011: BreakingPoint will conduct a live demonstration including intrusion prevention systems (IPS) and firewall testing using blended application traffic and live security attacks of Juniper Networks SRX Series Services Gateways for the branch including the SRX650.
• Day Two RSA 09: Confessions of a Booth Troll | NetworkWorld (Apr 22, 2009)
  But my hands down fave was the interview I did with BreakingPoint. I have been following BreakingPoint's awesome blog and on Twitter for a while now, but to see their gear in action was like seeing In N Out Burger after not eating for a day. It was awesome and yet filling at the same time!
• BreakingPoint推出新型网络处理架构 | ZDnet China (Mar 16, 2009)
  ZDnet China takes a look at how BreakingPoint Elite users saw a 100% increase in bandwidth performance on a 3-slot chassis without additional cost or hardware upgrade.
• BreakingPoint Tests Juniper Networks SRX5800 Services Gateway | TMC.net (Mar 09, 2009)
  Juniper Networks, Director of Product Management, Brian Lazear explained that their company enables innovative solutions that allow the most demanding applications services. He recognizes the contribution of BreakingPoint Elite’s all-in-one Layer 2-7 performance and security testing of the Juniper Networks SRX. The testing enabled them to configure the 150 Gbps application layer test within minutes without having to configure each individual port.
• BreakingPoint Stresses Juniper Gateway | LightReading (Mar 09, 2009)
  This event marks the first test of a network device using more than 100 Gbps of stateful blended application traffic made possible by BreakingPoint Elite's innovative Network Processing Architecture.
• Juniper product tested by BreakingPoint @ 150Gbps! | PerfTesting.org (Mar 09, 2009)
  The most interesting thing to me is the blended application traffic approach - being able to use their library of application protocols in a blend for a more realistic test scenario. I know many of the other vendors in this space have good application support, but the act of configuring a more realistic traffic mix always seems to be way too hard to configure, and usually beyond a test engineers patience threshold.
• A Sure-Fire Formula For Generating Jobs | Investor's Business Daily (Feb 20, 2009)
  Four young companies that are hiring like crazy are Contain Energy, Phycal, SolarWinds and BreakingPoint.
• BreakingPoint Claims 40G Breakthrough | Light Reading (Feb 10, 2009)
  Today, BreakingPoint users realized a 2X boost in testing performance with a simple firmware upgrade, enabling them to now generate blended Layer 4-7 application traffic at up to 40 Gigabits per second (Gbps).
• BreakingPoint Offers a VMotion Traffic Simulator | Virtualization.info (Feb 10, 2009)
  It’s good to know that BreakingPoint, a leader in the network equipment testing space, is now offering an appliance able to simulate VMware VMotion traffic.
• BreakingPoint Adds VMware VMotion Support | PerfTesting.org (Feb 02, 2009)
  Pretty neat idea for those companies out there that have products that work with VMotion - a convenient way of having the ability to emulate this without using the real thing.