Government Solutions Group
Resiliency Testing Data Sheet
Ensure the Performance, Security, and Resiliency of Critical
Information and Communication Infrastructures
Harden Net-Centric Operations and Ensure Standards Compliance with BreakingPoint™ Elite - The Industry’s Only
Defense Against Sophisticated Cyber Assault
BreakingPoint Elite: Resiliency Testing to Harden
Net-Centric Operations
Scalable Cyber Simulation – Scale easily to simulate global
networks, such as Cyber Range, and apply load to test data centers
and cloud services. Blend application traffic with live security
attacks, create traffic profiles to simulate network conditions and
incorporate traffic from your network.
Today, government agencies must protect our nation’s critical
information network infrastructure, ensure the availability and Create Protocols and Security Strikes – BreakingPoint provides
performance of mission-critical digital services and meet the toolkits to create proprietary application protocols and security
deliverables of the ASD/NII. strikes for use in testing.
Comprehensive Attack Coverage – Leverage unprecedented
As our nation’s cyber infrastructure has evolved to support a
security coverage including more than 4,200 live security attacks,
dynamic mix and high volume of application traffic, attacks
Microsoft® Tuesday coverage, and the capability to evade common
from both criminal agents and enemies of the state have grown
security defenses.
increasingly sophisticated. These mission-critical networks, and the
devices that support the services they deliver, must be tested for Botnet Command & Control and Distributed Denial of Service
both performance and security resiliency. (DDoS) Simulation – Ensure network devices can detect Botnets
and mitigate DDoS attacks. Conduct infection vector testing using
Proper resiliency testing demands the most sophisticated, scalable, live security strikes.
and thorough performance and security testing system available
Complex Attack Scenarios – Simulate a wide range of
including:
sophisticated attacks with more than 80 evasions including stream
• Simulation of all known vulnerabilities, including current and segmentation, packet fragmentation, URL obfuscation, FTP telnet
comprehensive security attacks and thorough protocol fuzzing opcode, space insertion, and more.
to harden defenses. Advanced Protocol Fuzzing – Identify performance issues or
• Line-rate traffic generation and session throughput of realistic unknown vulnerabilities quickly by testing with malicious or
and blended applications to test for vulnerabilities and malformed data packets.
performance issues under load.
Thorough Firewall and IPS Validation – Accelerate modernization
• Automated tools with the capability to be consistently updated of initiatives and evaluate performance and security claims of
in order to accelerate the development of game-changing vendors by testing for vulnerabilities under peak load conditions.
technologies.
Accurate Data Leak Protection – Validate Deep Packet Inspection
• Meeting current standards for compliance demands. (DPI) and filtering capabilities by embedding a specific piece of
data within tens of millions of data streams.
Resiliency Testing Depends on BreakingPoint
Precise Anomaly Detection – Ensure monitoring and security
BreakingPoint Elite is the only effective defense against cyber threats,
systems can identify elusive attacks by inserting anomalous traffic
having been engineered for ultimate realism, responsiveness,
patterns into tens of millions of data streams.
and performance. With an innovative network processor-driven
design, the BreakingPoint Elite cyber simulator delivers authentic Standards Conformance – Validate conformance to specifications
blended Layer 4-7 application traffic and live security strikes at using current standards such as Jumbo Frames.
up to 40 Gigabits per second (Gbps) with 15 Million simultaneous Meet IPv6 Compliance Deadlines – Conduct IPv4/IPv6 dual stack
TCP sessions. When it comes to performance and realism, no other testing with the industry’s most current IPv6 stack.
testing tool compares to BreakingPoint Elite.
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Government Solutions Group
Resiliency Testing Data Sheet
BreakingPoint Elite At-A-Glance R FORMANC
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BreakingPoint Elite simulates the most realistic network conditions
possible to enable defense and civilian agencies, leading government
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contractors, and research organizations to ensure our nation’s cyber RESILIENCY
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infrastructure is resilient against peak load performance issues, cyber
assault, manipulation and data theft.
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The Most Realistic Blended Traffic on a Single Blade
BreakingPoint delivers a realistic blend of good, bad and proprietary
application traffic such as voice, video, data and virus attacks at up to
Analysis and Reporting
40 Gbps in a 3-slot chassis.
• 2 Gigabytes of line rate capture history buffer per 10GigE
• Natively generates blended application traffic from more than interface and 1 Gigabyte per 1GigE interface with advanced
90+ stateful protocols including Oracle®, Microsoft® CIFS/ filtering capabilities.
SMB, VMware®, Citrix®, FIX, instant messaging (AIM®/Yahoo!®/
• Real-time statistics to monitor testing.
Microsoft/QQIM), peer-to-peer (eDonkey/Encrypted BitTorrent/
• Detailed graphical reports for compliance documentation.
QQIM) and others.
• Instant access to new applications and security strikes released Easy-to-Use Automated Testing
weekly. BreakingPoint Elite provides comprehensive Layer 2-7 testing in
• Custom Application Toolkit for emulating proprietary traffic. an integrated system featuring an intuitive Adobe® Flash-based
• Stateful recreate of captured traffic. management interface, application profile repository, multi-user
• Comprehensive and current IPv4 and IPv6 dual stack testing. capabilities, integrated reporting and extensive automation.
Security Research Lab and Attack Coverage
About BreakingPoint Covernment Solutions Group
BreakingPoint provides unprecedented attack coverage and
BreakingPoint Government Solutions Group provides network
sophisticated evasion capabilities through the BreakingPoint Labs
resiliency testing tools that helps defense and civilian government
security research team.
agencies, leading government contractors and research organizations
• More than 4,200 live security strikes. to accelerate the development and deployment of high-performance
• 80+ evasion techniques. networks and discover and defend against net-centric vulnerabilities.
• Complete same-day Microsoft® Tuesday coverage BreakingPoint is headquartered in Austin, Texas.
• SSL testing.
• Simulate Botnet and Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks. Additional Information
• SYN Flood attacks with up to 2 Million false and valid For more information on BreakingPoint Elite visit
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• Advanced application protocol fuzzing to test using malicious testing tools listed exclusively on Testmart at
malformed data packets.
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• Custom Strike Toolkit for emulating any strike.
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