The Test Insider Volume 4: Using Virtualization to Reduce Time-to-Test

Virtualization is a hot topic and it is important to understand how network equipment and servers perform in virtualized environments. That's why BreakingPoint added the VMware® VMotion™ protocol to our growing list of applications used during realistic testing. But did you know that you can also use virtualization to reduce time to test?

In this month's The Test Insider, we look at three new ways to drastically reduce your testing schedule, including using virtualization to quickly switch between different network devices or network topologies without leaving your desk.

Enjoy and keep on testing!

Quick Links:

• "7 Ways to Reduce Time-to-Test & Accelerate Product Development"
• Firewall Testing Webcast & BreakingPoint Firewall Test Methodology
• Interactive Tcl Shell Enables Automation and Accelerates Product Development - Todd Manning
• Attacking Critical Internet Infrastructure - HD Moore

Using Virtualization in Your Test Bed

Want to reduce time-to-test even more? BreakingPoint Labs' Sean Bradly uses a VMware server to quickly switch between different devices under test without frequent trips to the lab. This article takes you through a range of sample tests you can run against a virtual Linux host and provides a good example of how you can combine tools to reduce your time-to-test even further.

Unified Computing Begets Unified Testing

The idea of unified computing has been around for several years and recently many organizations are introducing technologies that will help make this a reality. One must wonder as we move towards a computing fabric how this will alter the network equipment testing industry. The need for realistic testing, due to the push towards next-generation content-aware network devices, becomes even more important with unified computing. Read how unified computing is driving the push towards unified testing.

Simulating DDoS Attacks White Paper

Download "Simulating Distributed Denial-of-Service", a new white paper written by BreakingPoint Labs researchers Dustin D. Trammell and Todd Manning. The paper describes how to configure testing products to emulate a number of DDos attack scenarios. Read the blog post and get access to the white paper and product test cases for immediate use.

Using Network Neighborhood to Automate Testing

Watch a quick and informative video taking you through the use of BreakingPoint's innovative "Network Neighborhood". Mike Hamilton, Director of Product Marketing, shows how, by using Network Neighborhood, you can add another level of automation to your testing and eliminate the need to reconfigure each of your test scenarios. Watch the video to see how to leverage this object-oriented approach significantly reduce your time-to-test.

HTML Strikes that Served Over the FTP Protocol

It is important that your network equipment is consistently up-to-date to face the latest security attacks. Tod Beardsley of BreakingPoint Labs writes about how browser exploits also work over FTP. This post details how ActiveX buffer overflows, image parsing bugs, spyware drive-by download sites and more can all work perfectly over FTP. Read more on how network inspection devices can be evaded by this security threat.

Testing with 100+ Gbps of Blended Application Traffic

BreakingPoint Elite was recently used in testing the first network device with more than 100 Gbps of blended Layer 4-7 application traffic. In this article you can read and see how the Juniper SRX5800 achieved 100 Gbps of stateful traffic, 150 Gbps of stateless traffic and 30 Gbps of intrusion prevention. Read how this test was conducted using a single configuration of four BreakingPoint Elite chassis.