How-to Move Beyond IPS Testing

Deterministically Measure the Resiliency of Your Intrusion Prevention System (IPS) Against Crippling Attack and High-Stress Application Load

 

Legacy testing of Intrusion Prevention Systems (IPS) was filled with stateless traffic flowing at low-speeds, and yet people were surprised when the IPS didn't perform well when deployed in a real-world network. An IPS is a complex network security device meant to identify all malicious activity and drop or sanitize the malicious packets. At the same time it must also, like a Firewall, allow appropriate traffic across the network. The traffic an IPS is seeing in the real-world is full of always changing attacks, dozens of legitimate protocols and all of it at multi gigabit-per-second speeds. It only makes sense that one move beyond the simple bit-blast testing they have been using for years and evolve in order to properly measure the performance, security and stability of their IPS.

Moving Beyond IPS Testing: BreakingPoint Storm CTM™

Because the cyber infrastructure landscape, both internally and externally, is changing so quickly, an IPS requires constant gauging in order to assess that an IPS is working. Every new software upgrade and/or signature set alters the way an IPS performs and the data derived from any evaluation must be objective, measured, and deterministic. The BreakingPoint Cyber Tomography Machine, the BreakingPoint Storm CTM™, can accurately measure the true performance and security of the IPS. 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 IPS through the paces of a real-world network and be confident that the device will work when deployed.

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