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BreakingPoint Publishes Truth-in-Testing Guides on Application Fuzzing and Emulating Distributed Denial-of-Service Attacks
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
Austin, TX – June 30, 2009 –BreakingPoint today released additional resiliency testing resources including detailed how-to testing guides for simulation of Distributed Denial-of-Service Attacks (DDoS) and Application Protocol Fuzzing. Additionally, the company has published overviews on many of their application protocol simulations including FIX, Encrypted BitTorrent, Oracle and more. Together these resources provide information and direction on how to complete more realistic performance and security testing.
BreakingPoint Releases Truth-in-Testing Guides and Application Protocol Briefs
Application Fuzzing is a critical element in any test scenario and has long been a part of any security auditor’s handbook. However it is also a terrific tool to use during the QA process since application fuzzing, though providing malicious or malformed data packets, can quickly determine performance issues and reveal bugs. Sean Bradly of BreakingPoint Labs has put together a guide to using fuzzing in the testing scenario.
Download “Application Fuzzing for Security Testing and Product QA”
Distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks happen constantly in malicious attempts to make an online resource unavailable, commonly through inundating the target with external requests so that it cannot respond to acceptable traffic, or responds so slowly as to be effectively unavailable. BreakingPoint Labs’ Dustin D. Trammell and Todd Manning have put together a paper describing how to configure testing tools to simulate the traffic profile normally associated with a DDoS attack and then provide a number of DDoS attack scenarios.
Download “Simulating Distributed Denial-of-Service Attacks with BreakingPoint”Read the Blog Post, “Simulating DDoS with BreakingPoint” from Dustin D. Trammell
Blended Layer 4-7 application traffic and live security strikes are the cornerstones for realistic testing. BreakingPoint supports more than 75 application protocols and 4,200 live security strikes, and more are provided each week. The team at BreakingPoint has created detailed data sheets on many of the application protocols and security vulnerabilities. These data sheets provide the testing community with an overview of how each protocol and vulnerability work, how BreakingPoint emulates them for testing and the benefit of using these during testing.
Download “BreakingPoint Application Protocol and Security Vulnerability Data Sheets”
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BreakingPoint accelerates the development and testing of high-performance content-aware network equipment with fast, accurate, responsive, and easy-to-use application, performance and security testing tools. BreakingPoint is headquartered in Austin, Texas, with offices throughout the world. For more information visit www.breakingpoint.com and download the latest resources for realistic firewall testing, IPS testing, server load testing and more.