Hardening Networks to Be Resilient Against Hostile Conditions

Hardening network security starts with measuring network security device performance and protection

How do you currently assess the performance and security of network devices such as your IPS, VPN, firewall, or other network security device? Can you be certain the 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?

 

Real-world security equipment assessment and hardening network security

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 is built using deep packet inspection (DPI) and content-aware capabilities. Security equipment assessment, on the other hand, has been slow to adopt the latest in realistic simulation techniques, unfortunately leading to ill equipped devices supposedly protecting critical cyber infrastructure.

Requirements for realistic assessment of security devices

Network security equipment is evolving every day in order to protect networks from more advanced and malicious traffic. The ability to validate hardened network security includes using:

  • Real-world application traffic and real-world speeds, 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 validate the DPI capabilities of devices such as lawful intercept systems, intrusion detection systems, intrusion protection systems, firewalls, and other content-aware devices
  • Real-time Security Attacks to continually bombard your equipment with the very latest assaults.
  • Numerous evasion techniques so you can reduce the risk of being caught off guard by the latest sneak attacks

Truly assess the resiliency of network security equipment to harden network security with the BreakingPoint Storm CTM™

The BreakingPoint Storm CTM provides users with hundreds of performance and security simulation features, including hundreds of real-world application protocols, thousands of the latest security attacks and millions of users. The BreakingPoint Storm CTM allows enterprises, government organizations, service providers and equipment vendors to put their security equipment through the paces of a real-world network in order to finally discover the hidden vulnerabilities that may have lead to crippling cyber attacks and truly harden network security.

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