Cyber Simulation
Assuring Network Resiliency Through Cyber Simulation
In October 2009, the United Nations Telecommunications Agency Chief warned “the next world war could take place in cyberspace.” Each day, tens of thousands of individuals attack networks throughout the world, for reasons ranging from personal amusement to organized cyber crime. All of that is happening while businesses and governments continue to rely on cyber networks to manage more and more critical aspects of their operations.
Today’s business, government and recreational Internet users expect secure, reliable and fast access to data, applications and communications. When security measures slow network performance, communications are lost, agility is compromised, and millions of dollars are wasted. Even the Department of Defense, which has made cyber security a central focus, reported in April 2009 that it was forced to take 1,500 machines offline after they had been compromised. It is clear that if security measures are not rigorous enough, critical information and national security are compromised and costs skyrocket. The goal is to find the optimal balance of security coverage and performance to assure network resiliency.
The enemy of network resiliency is network mayhem. Today’s public and private network infrastructures are complex, dynamic and increasingly vulnerable to network mayhem. This network mayhem comes in the form of cyber attacks, viruses, human error, and escalating traffic from bandwidth-heavy or easily compromised applications such as BitTorrent, Gmail, YouTube, Twitter, iPhone, Skype, and thousands of others.
What is Cyber Simulation?
Simulating realistic application traffic at live network speeds is the only way to stress both the packet inspection capabilities of DPI technologies and the emerging unified computing products. Similarly, the only way to know that the network will be resilient under peak load is to simulate real-world traffic with millions of users. At a minimum, cyber simulation requires:
- Realistic Network Traffic: The ability to generate blended real-world application traffic combined with live security attacks to replicate actual network conditions.
- Current Application Protocols, Standards and Attacks: Support for the most current application protocols (Web applications, Oracle, Microsoft CIFS/SMB, YouTube, VoIP and others), IPv4/IPv6 coverage and all known security vulnerabilities.
- Real Application Throughput and Performance: The ability to generate blended application traffic and security attacks at the speed of live networks, along with the scale of today’s usage patterns to simulate real application throughput and stress DPI capabilities.
- Maximum User Load: Hardware-accelerated performance for generating the millions of simultaneous TCP sessions required to simulate traffic from millions of users.
BreakingPoint Cyber Simulation Assures Network Resiliency
As escalating network mayhem and cyber attacks increase the frequency of costly network failures, organizations are left with only one option for assuring the resiliency of their networks—BreakingPoint. Only BreakingPoint cyber simulation products enable organizations to find and address critical performance issues and security vulnerabilities, assuring Network Resiliency™. Network resiliency is the optimal balance of performance and security in the face of extreme traffic volume or attack.
Cyber simulation on the scale that BreakingPoint products deliver has never before been possible without building and maintaining an environment that rivals the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency's (DARPA) National Cyber Range (NCR). BreakingPoint’s Internet-scale cyber simulation capabilities enable organizations to harden networks and data centers by simulating the commercial, military and government network conditions required to determine how all elements of the network will perform—individually and as a whole—under real-world conditions.
BreakingPoint has leveraged patent-pending product design, expertise in security and performance engineering, and an all-inclusive pricing model to drive a 183 percent compound annual growth rate (CAGR) over the past two years, with 84 percent profit margins. As the standard for assuring network resiliency, BreakingPoint products enable the world’s largest service providers, government agencies and contractors, network device manufacturers, server vendors and other Global 2000 enterprises to:
- Mitigate the risk of network failures, performance bottlenecks and security breaches
- Defend networks, applications and data against cyber assaults
- Accelerate the delivery of next-generation products, applications, and solutions
- Reduce the costs associated with replicating global network conditions
- Ensure compliance with industry and government standards
- Make more informed purchasing decisions
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