Security Equipment Testing

Do you have the security equipment testing tools to push your IPS, VPN, firewall, or other network security device to the limits? Can you be certain your product will defend against the latest threats in a real enterprise IT environment? Are you confident that your security measures won’t block legitimate traffic or compromise performance?

Security Equipment Testing Overview

Network security equipment is consistently introducing new technologies that can proactively protect the confidentiality, integrity and availability of any size enterprise. This new generation of security equipment are built-in with deep packet inspection (DPI) and content-aware capabilities. Security equipment testing on the other hand has been slow to adopt the latest in testing solutions, unfortunately slowing down the development cycles of Network Equipment Manufacturers (NEMs) and adding level upon level of costs without the providing the ability to properly test next-generation security equipment.

Security Equipment Testing Requirements

Security equipment is evolving every day in order to protect networks from more advanced and malicious traffic.  The ability to test security equipment has also changed requiring:

• The most authentic traffic at speeds of 20 Gigabits per second and faster, including converged business, recreational, and malicious traffic so you can effectively eliminate false-positives and ensure your security provisions are not blocking legitimate traffic.
• The ability to target end-points to truly test the DPI capabilities of devices such as intrusion detection systems, intrusion protection systems, firewalls, and other content-aware devices.
• Out of the box application protocols, including HTTP, SMTP, AOL IM, FIX, IBM  DB2, Microsoft™ CIFS/SMB, MAPI, Oracle, Encrypted BitTorrent™, eDonkey, RADIUS, SIP, Windows Live Messenger, World of Warcraft®, Yahoo!® Messenger
• Built-in Security Attacks to continually bombard your equipment with the latest assaults.
• Numerous evasion techniques with more released every month so you can reduce the risk of being caught off guard by the latest sneak attacks/

Security Equipment Testing Example

Answering “yes” to each of those questions demands a testing environment that includes realistic enterprise network traffic delivered at speeds of 20 Gigabits per second or faster. BreakingPoint is the only product with the converged business and malicious traffic delivered at 20 Gigabits per second and faster speeds to ensure content-aware systems provide optimal security without degrading performance.