BreakingPoint Custom Application Toolkit
and Custom Strike Toolkit
BreakingPoint™ Closes the Cyber Simulation Gap
Accelerate Proprietary Application Traffic and Security Strikes at up to 40 Gigabits per second for Real-World Resiliency
Testing
Testing next-generation network devices and application servers “NEMs and service providers testing next generation equipment must
requires realistic network simulation including stateful application generate a realistic mix of business, recreational, malicious, and
traffic converged with live security strikes at line-rate speed. The
proprietary application traffic at ever increasing speeds. BreakingPoint’s
frequent emergence of new applications and security vulnerabilities
has developed into a major problem resulting in a “realistic network support for simulation of proprietary application traffic is an important
simulation gap” that grows each day (Figure 1). step towards addressing the growing application-oriented and content-
Network equipment manufacturers (NEMs), service providers, aware network test challenges.”
application server vendors, enterprises and government agencies
need the flexibility to test devices using popular application Elisabeth Rainge, Program Director, IDC
protocols and their own proprietary application traffic. Furthering
the quest for realistic network simulation, they must also have access
to the most threatening security attacks and the power to write their
own security strikes.
BreakingPoint currently provides 90+ application protocols and
4,200+ security strikes, as well as a Custom Application Toolkit
and Custom Strike Toolkit to design realistic scenarios that include
proprietary application traffic and security strikes on BreakingPoint’s
powerful cyber simulation platform.
BreakingPoint provides the most comprehensive testing coverage
including:
• BreakingPoint Custom Application Toolkit’s ability to
natively generate stateful application traffic from proprietary Figure 1 - The Cyber Simulation Gap is Growing
applications at up to 40 Gigabits per second (Gbps).
Testing today’s network equipment requires realistic application traffic
• BreakingPoint Custom Strike Toolkit’s ability to write security
blended with live security attacks. New applications and sophisticated
strikes to run on BreakingPoint’s hardware in a matter of hours.
security attacks emerge daily creating a growing “Realism Gap”.
• Validating the resiliency of networks and their elements when
faced with proprietary traffic and security strikes at high session
counts.
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The BreakingPoint Architecture Advantage
Legacy test vendors are unable to keep up with the new realities of
resiliency testing because of their rigid architectures. They cannot
easily update their solutions with the latest application protocols
and security strikes—in fact, it can often take up to a year to provide
even the most common application protocols and security strikes for
testing.
BreakingPoint solutions are architected in three independent layers
that work together (Figure 2), providing a testing environment that
effectively closes the realistic network simulation gap.
The Hardware Layer provides the firepower needed to effectively
test network equipment with both Layer 2-3 and Layer 4-7 traffic.
The Control Layer is the go-between, enabling sophisticated
automation of testing, eliminating the need to manually script or
start from scratch on every test.
The BreakingPoint Management Layer provides an intuitive
management interface, application profile repository, detailed
reporting and the ability to test proprietary applications and security
strikes. These layers come together to provide the industry’s fastest,
most accurate, easy-to-use, and flexible performance and security
testing product. Figure 2 - BreakingPoint Architecture
The unique BreakingPoint Elite architecture features three distinct but
integrated layers that deliver authentic blended traffic, responsiveness,
ease-of-use and unprecedented performance.
BreakingPoint Elite At-A-Glance
BreakingPoint Elite simulates the most realistic network conditions possible to enable defense and civilian agencies, leading government
contractors, and research organizations to ensure our nation’s cyber infrastructure is resilient against peak load performance issues, cyber
assault, manipulation and data theft.
BreakingPoint Elite enables users to:
• Conduct more realistic and thorough product evaluations.
• Reduce QA debugging time.
• Easily determine the behavior of networks under a wide
variety of load conditions.
• Identify vulnerabilities and understand how devices
perform when under attack.
• Mitigate risk of making changes to networks, improve
performance and reduce costs.
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BreakingPoint Custom Application Toolkit
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The Most Realistic Blended Traffic on a Single Blade Analysis and Reporting
BreakingPoint delivers a realistic blend of good, bad and proprietary • 2 Gigabytes of line-rate capture history buffer per 10GigE
application traffic such as voice, video, data and virus attacks at up to interface and 1 Gigabyte per 1GigE interface with advanced
40 Gbps in a 3-slot chassis. filtering capabilities.
• Real-time statistics to monitor testing.
• 90+ application protocols are available, including AOL IM®,
• Detailed graphical reports for compliance documentation.
eDonkey™, Encrypted BitTorrent™, FIX/FIXT, HTTP, HTTPs, IBM
DB2®, MAPI, Microsoft® CIFS/SMB, Oracle®, PP Live, QQ IM, Easy-to-Use Automated Testing
RADIUS, SIP, SMTP, VMware® VMotion™, Windows Live Messenger,
BreakingPoint Elite provides comprehensive Layer 2-7 testing in
World of Warcraft®, Yahoo!® Messenger and many more.
an integrated system featuring an intuitive Adobe® Flash-based
• Instant access to new applications and security strikes released
management interface, application profile repository, multi-user
weekly.
capabilities, integrated reporting and extensive automation.
• Stateful recreate of captured traffic.
• Comprehensive and current IPv4 and IPv6 dual stack testing.
Security Research Lab and Attack Coverage
BreakingPoint provides unprecedented attack coverage and
sophisticated evasion capabilities through the BreakingPoint Labs
security research team.
• More than 4,200 live security strikes.
• 80+ evasion techniques.
• Complete Microsoft® Tuesday coverage within 24 hours of
announcement.
• SSL testing.
• Simulate Botnet and Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks.
• SYN Flood attacks with up to 2 Million false and valid
connections.
• Advanced application protocol fuzzing to test using malicious or
malformed data packets.
Industry-Leading Session Performance and Throughput
A single BreakingPoint Elite 3-slot chassis provides:
• 15 Million simultaneous TCP sessions; 1.5 Million TCP sessions per
second.
• 40 Gigabits per second of blended Layer 4-7 traffic; 80 Gigabits
per second of Layer 2-3 traffic.
• Scales to unprecedented performance levels by linking
multiple BreakingPoint Elite using a single interface, one test
configuration and integrated reporting.
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BreakingPoint Resources
BreakingPoint offers a host of resources providing insight on reducing time-to-test and accelerating product development. Find test
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BreakingPoint Test Methodologies
BreakingPoint test methodologies are developed by the BreakingPoint Labs
team based on their experience developing and testing a variety of high-
performance network equipment. These test methodologies document
processes for validating the performance and reliability of next generation
network devices, including IPS, deep packet inspection (DPI) equipment, high-
performance firewalls and more.
BreakingPoint White Papers
BreakingPoint offers white papers on reducing time-to-test, content-aware
network equipment testing, the ever-changing complexity of network security
equipment and more.
BreakingPoint Newsletter: The Test Insider
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and insights for the Layer 2-7 testing community with tips and information
to accelerate network equipment development and reduce time-to-test.
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BreakingPoint Labs Community
BreakingPoint Labs brings together a diverse community of people using the
latest in network, application and performance testing tools. BreakingPoint
Labs is a central location for many discussions around the importance of testing
with realistic blended traffic, live security strikes, authentic throughput and high
speeds. Visit www.breakingpointlabs.com.
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