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IPS Testing Methodology
A test methodology to measure the resiliency of an IPS under real-world network conditions
An intrusion prevention system (IPS) is designed to detect malicious activities and drop or sanitize the packets while allowing legitimate traffic to access the corporate network. In order to verify an IPS will work properly in a real-world deployment it is critical to measure the IPS' performance and security under the same real-world situations including known vulnerabilities, attack scenarios, custom strikes and legitimate application traffic. If an IPS fails to work properly, even letting a single flow of malicious traffic to pass, can allow viruses, worms and backdoor attacks to gain access to the corporate network and cause a great deal of problems, potentially bringing down the network. Only through proper and realistic network simulation can you measure the resiliency of an IPS.
IPS Testing Methodology
How to test an IPS with BreakingPoint's next-generation test methodology, helps determine the IPS’ actual capabilities under real-world conditions. For instance, the IPS device might be able to detect and mitigate malicious activity under light network traffic load. However, when network traffic becomes heavy, the IPS device might detect significantly less malicious activity. Sufficient examination must be performed to fully characterize the impact different scenarios will have on the IPS.
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