BreakingPoint Case Studies

A few success stories from our hundreds of customers worldwide

Korea Telecom Hardens Network Defenses Against DDoS Attacks

DoS and DDoS attacks have become a persistent and costly fact of life for many of South Korea’s leading businesses and government institutions. Korea Telecom (KT) must constantly ensure the resiliency of networks and data centers, whether their own or their customers’, to continue performing in the face of a wide variety of DDoS attacks. KT uses BreakingPoint Actionable Security Intelligence as a powerful weapon in the fight to protect critical IT infrastructures against attacks by hackers, terrorists, and nation-states. Read the full case study.

United States Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) Creates Fully Operational Cyber Range

The Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) within the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) is tasked with vital missions to evaluate new network defense technologies, policies ,and tactics and to train DoD personnel to repel attacks upon critical cyber infrastructures. DISA urgently needed a battle-ready cyber range to carry out these missions, yet it could not waste several years and countless millions of dollars to build an old-fashioned cyber range. Using BreakingPoint cyber range solutions, DISA can simulate Internet-scale cyber war in a controlled environment to measure the resiliency of its network and data center infrastructures, conduct advanced research and development, and -- perhaps most importantly -- train its cyber warriors. Read the full case study.

Cisco Reduces Development Costs for Next-Generation Firewall-IPS Devices

Cisco’s ASA development team uses BreakingPoint Actionable Security Intelligence solutions to quickly create the real-world application, attack, and malformed traffic needed to validate its enterprise-class products. This approach eliminates complexity in Cisco’s testing processes, replacing multiple test systems, interfaces, licenses, and reports with a single comprehensive product that operates at massive scale. Read the full case study.

Fortune 100 Bank Transforms Network and Application Infrastructure Resiliency Practice

One of the world’s largest banks was challenged to harden network and data center infrastructure security measures without degrading the high performance required in the financial services industry. The bank’s Network Security team used BreakingPoint Actionable Security Intelligence to transform its Network Security Certification process to measure the resiliency—performance, security, and stability—of every element of the network before and after deployment.  Read the full case study.

Consumer Financing Company Reduces Troubleshooting and Time to Deployment During Data Center Security Crisis

A global consumer financing company uses BreakingPoint Actionable Security Intelligence solutions to reduce troubleshooting and time to deployment by recreating authentic application traffic from millions of users to quickly validate and understand how network devices will perform in production. This pre-deployment testing approach determines the true capabilities of content-aware devices prior to production, saving both time and money. Read the full case study.

Major European Bank Ensures Resiliency of Online Services Throughout Data Center Consolidation

Banking IT departments face more scrutiny than ever from both customers and government regulators, which puts more pressure on them to proactively ensure that their infrastructures operate smoothly and securely. This major European bank’s challenges were compounded when a huge international merger added millions of users to its customer base—and triggered a major data center consolidation project. The bank’s IT staff had to maintain high performance and security for its online financial services while also achieving efficiencies and reducing operating costs. Having to perform evaluations and assess options quickly, the bank’s IT team turned to BreakingPoint. Read the full case study.

Telecom Equipment Manufacturer Accelerates Development and Testing of LTE Network Products

As a developer of innovative 3G and LTE equipment, this telecom equipment manufacturer helps service providers optimize network configurations and improve customer offerings by delivering insight into customer behavior. The equipment manufacturer uses BreakingPoint mobility testing solutions to simulate large-scale wireless network traffic to validate their equipment’s performance under highly accurate conditions for 3G and LTE/4G networks and to minimize the risk associated with deploying its groundbreaking equipment. Read the full case study.

Yahoo! Ensures Resiliency of Network Equipment and Cloud Infrastructure

With one of the world’s largest network and cloud infrastructures supporting millions of users globally, Yahoo! is focused on delivering fast and reliable commerce, communications, and social networking services. Yahoo!, after taking the time to run complex and malicious simulations, determined that the BreakingPoint security and performance testing products are the only solution to uncover the otherwise unidentifiable vulnerabilities within its network, enabling them to protect its global audience from harm. Read the full case study.

Northrop Grumman UK Delivers Federated Cyber Range

Today’s cyber attackers have the upper hand against high-risk enterprise and government IT infrastructures riddled with vulnerabilities. But Northrop Grumman’s UK Federated Cyber Range services are filling critical voids in the battle to secure these infrastructures for both private and public organizations. Using the advanced capabilities of BreakingPoint cyber range products and Actionable Security Intelligence to re-create the precise conditions these targets face in the real world, Northrop Grumman is delivering services to test and harden resiliency against attacks, conduct advanced cyber security research, and train cyber warriors to defend infrastructures. Read the full case study.

Testing the Juniper SRX

Many different organizations within Juniper rely on BreakingPoint Actionable Security Intelligence solutions to help them validate performance and reliability early in the product development life cycle and to ensure that products perform optimally in real enterprise networks. Juniper has used BreakingPoint to demonstrate the performance of its next-generation IPS system at the NXTComm trade show and for validating the performance and security of the Juniper SRX series, because only BreakingPoint's unique traffic scalability mixed with security attacks could provide an adequate challenge for the world's fastest firewall. Read the full case study.

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