Press Releases

• BreakingPoint Resiliency Score™ Replaces Vendor Assurances With the Measurable Answers Needed to Harden Cyber Infrastructure (Mar 02, 2010)
  BreakingPoint Resiliency Score provides an objective, repeatable and scientifically measured certification of manufacturer performance and security claims
• BreakingPoint Increases Revenue 280 Percent in 2009, Achieving 8 Consecutive Quarters of Record Revenue Growth (Feb 23, 2010)
  Global Organizations’ Demand to Identify Vulnerabilities and Weaknesses in Cyber Infrastructure Elements Drives Extraordinary BreakingPoint Growth
• BreakingPoint Introduces Bing-like Security Strike Search Engine for BreakingPoint Elite Users (Dec 17, 2009)
  BreakingPoint Elite’s new security strike search engine helps users quickly find and select security vulnerabilities to harden critical infrastructures against cyberattack
• BreakingPoint Doubles Security Research Team To Focus On Cybersecurity Infrastructure (Dec 16, 2009)
  BreakingPoint Surpasses 4,300 Security Strikes For Use In Hardening Critical Infrastructure Against Cyberattack
• Five Keys for Hardening Security Against Increasingly Sophisticated Evasions (Dec 09, 2009)
  Free Webcast Featuring BreakingPoint Security Research Team
• BreakingPoint Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) and Botnet Test Methodology Helps Networks Prepare for Imminent Attack (Nov 03, 2009)
  BreakingPoint security experts to speak at upcoming webcast on how to replicate DDoS and botnet attacks in order to validate the security and performance of a network
• BreakingPoint to Demonstrate Cyber Range Simulation Breakthrough at MILCOM 2009 Conference (Oct 19, 2009)
  BreakingPoint Enables Organizations to Find and Resolve Critical Performance Issues and Security Vulnerabilities to Assure Network Resiliency
• BreakingPoint Details How To Test Intrusion Prevention Systems in Latest Testing Methodology (Sep 24, 2009)
  Updated testing methodology provides guidelines for simulating real-world network traffic, including 4,200+ vulnerabilities, to help validate the performance and resiliency of today’s Intrusion Prevention Systems (IPS)
• BreakingPoint Is First To Simulate Major Database Protocols for Testing the Resiliency of Enterprise, e-Commerce and Social Networks (Sep 17, 2009)
  BreakingPoint Elite realistically simulates business traffic with comprehensive support of database protocols, including MySQL®, Oracle® and Microsoft® SQL
• BreakingPoint Publishes Expanded Firewall Testing Methodology (Sep 15, 2009)
  New version of testing methodology provides guidelines for simulating real-world network traffic to help validate the performance and resiliency of 10GigE firewalls
• BreakingPoint Systems Continues Record Growth and Momentum with Appointment of New Chief Financial Officer (Sep 10, 2009)
  Jonathan Dorton joins BreakingPoint as CFO with more than 15 years of experience at high growth network technology and service provider organizations
• Cyber Security Webcast: Operational Management and Cyber Simulation Techniques to Verify Your Defense in Depth Strategy (Sep 02, 2009)
  Panel of network performance and security experts to discuss cyber simulation strategies for verifying your Defense in Depth implementation
• BreakingPoint Expands Testing Capabilities With More Than 30 New Features to Ensure the Resiliency of Network Devices and Application Servers (Aug 26, 2009)
  New firmware upgrade includes industry’s most current IPv6 testing, pioneering 10GigE debugging capabilities, enhanced Layer 2/3 functionality, advanced testing automation and powerful capture and recreate features
• World’s Most Used Instant Messaging, Peer-to-Peer and Video Streaming Applications Now Supported for Network Equipment and Server Load Testing (Aug 18, 2009)
  BreakingPoint adds realistic emulation of P2P streaming video network PPLive and online television platform QQLive to previous support of AIM®, QQ IM, Windows Live Messenger, BitTorrent™ and more
• BreakingPoint Extends Market-leading Vulnerability Testing Coverage with Ability to Write and Simulate Custom Security Strikes (Aug 12, 2009)
  BreakingPoint Elite enables users to write and simulate any security vulnerability, along with stateful application traffic, for comprehensive network resiliency testing
• BreakingPoint Adds Pioneering Features for Debugging 10 GigE Devices (Jul 28, 2009)
  BreakingPoint Elite provides 20x the packet capture history of competitors along with new advanced filtering to enable QA and R&D to quickly find bugs in network equipment and application servers
• BreakingPoint First to Deliver Dual Stack IPv4/IPv6 Testing Capabilities and Support for Current IPv6 Standards (Jul 21, 2009)
  BreakingPoint now delivers industry’s most thorough IPv6 performance and security testing capabilities to ensure network resilience and standards conformance
• BreakingPoint Systems Named AlwaysOn Global 250 Winner (Jul 16, 2009)
  Company Selected as Technology Innovator for 2009
• BreakingPoint Shatters Server Load Testing Performance, Generating Hundreds of Thousands of Simultaneous Sessions (Jul 14, 2009)
  Traditional Server Load Testing Tools Require Hundreds of Servers, Software Licenses and Consultants to Equal the Performance of One BreakingPoint Elite
• BreakingPoint Publishes Truth-in-Testing Guides on Application Fuzzing and Emulating Distributed Denial-of-Service Attacks (Jun 30, 2009)
  Testing of today’s network equipment demands the most realistic security scenarios including simulation of Botnets, Application Fuzzing, Distributed Denial-of-Service (DDoS) and more
• BreakingPoint Provides the Only Realistic Network Simulation for Testing Vulnerability and Resiliency of U.S. Cyber Infrastructure (Jun 25, 2009)
  BreakingPoint Government Solutions Group Supports Growing Demand for Resiliency Testing with Simulation of Blended Applications Mixed with Live Security Strikes at Line-Rate Throughput
• BreakingPoint Publishes Server Load Balancer Testing Methodology (Jun 16, 2009)
  Methodology provides in-depth guideline for realistic performance and security testing of server load balancers
• Qosmos Depends On BreakingPoint Elite for Testing Network Intelligence Technology (May 07, 2009)
  BreakingPoint helps accelerate Qosmos’ product development and ensures critical performance requirements through testing DPI-capabilities using realistic application traffic
• BreakingPoint Reports Record Revenue for Fourth Consecutive Quarter (Apr 15, 2009)
  
• BreakingPoint Tests Juniper Networks SRX5800 Services Gateway, Achieving 150 Gbps of Throughput and 109 Gbps of Blended Application Traffic (Mar 05, 2009)
  BreakingPoint’s Innovative Network Processing Architecture Emulates Realistic High-Performance Conditions to Test Performance, Security Effectiveness and Scalability
• BreakingPoint Invents New Network Processing Architecture to Deliver 40 Gbps of Blended Application Traffic from Single Testing Device (Feb 02, 2009)
  BreakingPoint Elite Users Upgrade Firmware to Realize 100% Increase in Bandwidth Performance on 3-slot Chassis without Additional Cost or Hardware Upgrade
• BreakingPoint Elite Network Equipment Testing Solution Added to General Services Administration Contract (Jan 29, 2009)
  BreakingPoint Elite Reduces Time-to-Test with All-in-One Layer 2-7 Network Equipment Testing
• BreakingPoint is First to Emulate VMotion Application Traffic for Realistic Testing of Network Devices Within a Virtualized Environment (Jan 28, 2009)
  BreakingPoint Support for VMware® VMotion™ Application Protocol Allows Testing of Network Equipment Without Deploying Additional Infrastructure
• BreakingPoint Publishes Firewall Testing Methodology (Jan 13, 2009)
  Methodology’s guidelines for realistic testing of high-performance Firewalls helps to reduce overall time-to-test and accelerate product development
• Stonesoft Uses BreakingPoint to Reduce Time-to-Test for 10-Gigabit Firewall and Intrusion Prevention Systems (Dec 09, 2008)
  Network Security leader finds BreakingPoint testing products fast, accurate and easy-to-use, helping to accelerate product development while reducing costs
• BreakingPoint is the First to Provide Testing Support for QQ, China’s Most Popular Instant Messaging Application (Dec 04, 2008)
  BreakingPoint provides the most realistic network equipment testing tools with addition of QQ to list of supported applications for testing including AIM®, IRC, Jabber®, Windows® Live Messenger and Yahoo! ® Messenger
• BreakingPoint First Network Equipment Testing Solution to Generate Encrypted Peer-to-Peer (P2P) Application Traffic at 10 Gigabits per Second and Faster (Nov 05, 2008)
  BreakingPoint expands P2P application traffic protocol support; now includes BitTorrent, encrypted BitTorrent, eDonkey and Gnutella
• BreakingPoint Continues to Provide Most Comprehensive Microsoft® Tuesday Coverage in the Network Equipment Testing Industry (Oct 16, 2008)
  BreakingPoint is the only company that provides comprehensive security tests for its users within 24 hours of Microsoft's Patch Tuesday release.
• BreakingPoint Announces Competitive Trade Up Program for Network Equipment Testing Products (Oct 07, 2008)
  Discounts, training and testing methodologies help companies break free of rigid legacy vendors and achieve breakthrough performance, accelerated development and reduced time-to-test
• BreakingPoint Elite Becomes First Network Equipment Testing Solution to Generate 15M TCP Sessions and 20 Gbps of Layer 4-7 Traffic (Oct 06, 2008)
  4 Rack Unit Chassis Accelerates Development and Reduces Cost of Testing Network Equipment With Unprecedented Session Performance, Throughput and Ease-of-Use
• BreakingPoint Announces Support for Microsoft Exchange Protocol MAPI, Critical for Authentic Network Equipment Testing (Sep 30, 2008)
  BreakingPoint’s growing list of real application protocols for use in testing network equipment adds critical MAPI protocol, used by Microsoft® Outlook to communicate with Microsoft® Exchange
• BreakingPoint and Vicom Team to Provide Next-Generation Network Equipment Testing Solutions to Australia and New Zealand (Sep 25, 2008)
  
• BreakingPoint Systems Awarded for Network Equipment Testing Product of the Year by Frost & Sullivan (Sep 10, 2008)
  BreakingPoint’s network equipment performance and security testing product recognized for its ability to enhance efficiency, reduce time-to-test, and accelerate product development
• BreakingPoint Accelerates Time-to-Test for Enterasys Dragon 10GbE IPS/IDS Platform (Sep 09, 2008)
  Ease-of-use, performance capability and realistic testing conditions provided by BreakingPoint enable Enterasys to test smarter and faster
• BreakingPoint Adds Windows Live Messenger Protocol to Expanding List of Real Application Traffic Critical for Authentic Network Equipment Testing (Aug 20, 2008)
  BreakingPoint support of AIM, IRC, Jabber, Windows Live and Yahoo! enables NEMS and service providers to validate and tune the performance of network devices using realistic and peak traffic conditions
• BreakingPoint Publishes Deep Packet Inspection Testing Methodology (Aug 19, 2008)
  Videos and documentation detail techniques for testing Deep Packet Inspection functionality using stateful application and malicious traffic
• Sarrel Group Standardizes Layer 4-7 Testing with BreakingPoint Systems (Aug 13, 2008)
  Sarrel Group’s testing lab to use BreakingPoint testing solutions to measure performance and ensure security of network devices using stateful application traffic, live security strikes and 10Gps speeds
• NetQoS Selects BreakingPoint for Realistic Layer 4-7 Testing at 10 Gigabits per Second (Aug 05, 2008)
  Ease of use, flexibility, and native generation of stateful application traffic at 10 Gbps allows NetQoS to validate product performance faster to accelerate new releases
• BreakingPoint Adds Twitter Protocol to Network Performance Testing Platform (Jul 30, 2008)
  Enables Network Equipment Manufacturers and Service Providers to validate and tune the performance of network devices under the most realistic and peak traffic conditions
• BreakingPoint Adds Financial Information eXchange (FIX) Protocol to Easy-to-Use, 10+ Gigabit Network Device Testing Platform (Jul 22, 2008)
  Enables financial institutions to validate and tune the performance of trading systems under the most realistic and peak traffic conditions
• Secure Crossing Accelerates Development of Network Devices Using BreakingPoint Systems’ Testing Platform (Jul 09, 2008)
  Ability to properly test network devices using stateful application traffic and security threats enables Secure Crossing to speed development and certify devices for IT audits
• BreakingPoint Releases ActiveX Instantiation Strike (Jul 08, 2008)
  Test Network and Security Devices for Commonly Missing Vulnerability Coverage
• BreakingPoint Systems Continues Growth and Momentum with Appointment of Vice President of North American Sales (Jun 26, 2008)
  Jim Alnwick joins BreakingPoint, bringing with him more than 20 years of success in the network equipment and testing industry
• BreakingPoint Toolkit First to Allow Native Generation of Stateful Proprietary Application Traffic (Jun 25, 2008)
  BreakingPoint Fills "Application Gap" Enabling Real-World Performance Testing of Next-Generation Network Devices
• BreakingPoint Publishes Methodology for Testing Content-Aware Network Devices (Jun 11, 2008)
  Methodologies include videos and documentation discussing techniques for testing network equipment starting with Intrusion Prevention Systems (IPS)
• BreakingPoint Accelerates Development of Next-Generation Network Devices and Reduces Time-to-Test by 50 Percent (Jun 02, 2008)
  BreakingPoint introduces 50+ application protocols including BitTorrent, eDonkey, DB2, Radius, Oracle, FIXT, Microsoft SQL Server and CIFS/SMB Applications; support for IPv6 and SSL; and Enhanced Multi-box Management and Real-time Reporting
• Info Security Products Guide Honors BreakingPoint and HD Moore with the Shaping Info Security 2008 Industry Award (May 27, 2008)
  BreakingPoint Recognized For Leadership in Creating a Network Device Testing System that Accelerates the Development of Security Equipment
• BreakingPoint Receives Network Products Guide 2008 Product Innovation Award (May 14, 2008)
  BreakingPoint Content-Aware Network Test Platform Selected for Product Innovation in Networking
• NSS Labs Selects BreakingPoint As Standard For Testing Next Generation Content-Aware Network Equipment (May 08, 2008)
  BreakingPoint’s devices provide unique ability to emulate complex multi-protocol traffic with live security attacks at speeds of more than 10 Gigabits per second
• BreakingPoint Continues To Attract Senior Leadership Talent (Apr 29, 2008)
  BreakingPoint Continues To Attract Senior Leadership Talent With Addition Of Sales and Marketing Executives Stephane Johnson and Pam O’Neal: New Executives to Drive Awareness Around Next Generation Network and Application Test Systems
• Info Security Products Guide Names BreakingPoint Winner of “2008 Tomorrow’s Technology Today” Award (Apr 22, 2008)
  Info Security Products Guide has selected BreakingPoint winners of the 2008 Tomorrow’s Technology Today Award.
• BreakingPoint High Performance Application Test Products Added to General Services Administration Contract (Apr 06, 2008)
  BreakingPoint included in the General Services Administration contract (number GS-24F-0066M) via an exclusive partnership agreement with Technical Communities Inc.
• BreakingPoint Raises $15 Million in Series C (Nov 05, 2007)
  BreakingPoint raises $15 million in Series C Funding. Return investors included Genesis Inventions, L.P. and Austin Ventures while additional capital was secured from other new and existing investors.
• BreakingPoint Systems, Inc. Unveils World’s Fastest Application Traffic Generator (Sep 24, 2007)
  BreakingPoin releases BPS-10K, the most powerful network test device available
• BreakingPoint Systems, Inc. Launches Next Generation Network Test Equipment for Content Aware Networks (Jul 30, 2007)
  BreakingPoint Systems, cutting-edge providers of next-generation network test equipment, today announced the commercial availability of its BPS-1000. The BPS-1000 is the industry's first network test system that enables multi-layer emulation testing at multi-gigabit speeds.
• Frost & Sullivan Recognizes BreakingPoint Systems, Inc. with the 2007 Global Communications Test & Measurement Emerging Technology of the Year Award (Jul 09, 2007)
  Frost & Sullivan recognizes BreakingPoint Systems 2007 Frost & Sullivan Award for Emerging Technology of the Year.