How-to Move Beyond Firewall Testing

Deterministically Measure the Resiliency of Your Firewall Against Crippling Attack and High-Stress Application Load

 

Traditionally Firewalls have been evaluated based upon RFC 3511 and RFC 2544, both created in the past when we did not have the capacity to emulate multi-gigabit-per-second speeds, let alone doing it with stateful application protocols and live security attacks. Legacy testing was used with firewalls, only focusing on specific protocols, traffic or ports. Additionally this legacy testing would only determine throughput and fowarding rate for unicast IP packets only, and they would be sent at a constant rate and packet size. As you now know, legacy testing like this does not match actual network traffic, leaving you with deployed Firewalls that were not resilient to cyber attack or high-stress application load.

Moving Beyond Firewall Testing: BreakingPoint Storm CTM™

Cyber Tomography Machines (CTMs) use a scientific method to identify the weaknesses and vulnerabilities of a network device such as a Firewall. By emitting high-speed application and malicious traffic into the Firewall the BreakingPoint Storm CTM™ can accurately measure the true performance and security of the device. 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 emulates millions of users. The BreakingPoint Storm CTM allows enterprises, government organizations, service providers and equipment vendors to put their Firewalls through the paces of a real-world network and be confident that the device will work when deployed.

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