Network Security Testing

Test network defenses against data breaches, DDoS attacks, malware, and more

 

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Network defenses are constantly under attack from cyber criminals, organized groups, and hacktivists. This threat landscape poses a danger not only to sensitive data, but to businesses as a whole. Data breaches alone have cost companies and individuals $139 billion in the past five years, and even a small vulnerability in network or data center infrastructures can lead to major damage from denial of service (DoS), malware, and other attacks.

Challenges Network Security Testing

Validating and securing network infrastructures requires a constant balance between security and performance. The only way to optimize both of them is to stress network security devices and systems with real-world conditions including stateful benign application traffic, DoS attacks, malware, and heavy user load. Proper network security testing must:

  • Assess the performance and security of devices including firewalls, IPS devices, load balancers, and VPN equipment.
  • Validate that all network security devices are capable of defending against the latest threats.
  • Accurately predict how your network will perform under attack and what effects an attack will have on critical services.

BreakingPoint Network Security Testing Solution

BreakingPoint provides customers advance insight into how to harden and secure network security. By re-creating the behavior of millions of connected users, BreakingPoint products ensure that enterprises, government organizations, service providers, and equipment vendors can maintain network resiliency by subjecting their security equipment to extreme real-world conditions. BreakingPoint products allow users to:

  • Stress network infrastructures with a choice of more than 4,500 security attacks and 28,000 pieces of malware—including more than 100 pieces of mobile malware—plus obfuscations and evasions.
  • Measure and harden the performance, security, and stability of load balancers, firewalls, IPS devices, and other equipment with up to 120 gigabits per second of application, attack, and malformed traffic.
  • Re-create more than 150 application protocols—with multicast support.
  • Emulate sophisticated, large-scale DoS and mobile-initiated botnet attacks to uncover previously hidden weaknesses.

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