BreakingPoint Provides the Only Realistic Network Simulation for Testing

Vulnerability and Resiliency of U.S. Cyber Infrastructure

BreakingPoint Government Solutions Group Supports Growing Demand for Resiliency Testing
with Simulation of Blended Applications Mixed with Live Security Strikes at Line-Rate Throughput

Austin, TX – June 24, 2009 – BreakingPoint Government Solutions Group today announced the
department’s expansion in response to the increased demand from defense and civilian
government agencies, leading government contractors and research organizations looking to
perform resiliency testing. Resiliency testing is now a reality with BreakingPoint’s ability to
simulate a true global network with blended stateful application traffic mixed with live security
attacks at line-rate speeds and high session counts, delivered from the same address space.

Resiliency Testing Critical to U.S. Cyber Infrastructure

The United States’ cyber infrastructure is evolving to support a dynamic mix and high volume of
application traffic, as well as defend against attacks from both criminal agents and enemies of the
state. Testing the resiliency of mission-critical networks, as well as the devices and the services
they deliver, is crucial for the agencies and organizations tasked with protecting our nation’s
information network infrastructure. Only through testing using realistic network simulation can the
government ensure the availability and performance of digital services and meet the deliverables
of President Obama’s Cyber Security Initiative and the ASD/NII.

BreakingPoint Elite Provides Industry’s Only Resiliency Testing Tool

BreakingPoint Elite provides resiliency testing capabilities by simulating realistic blended
application traffic mixed with live security strikes at line-rate throughput and maximum load
conditions. BreakingPoint Elite’s resiliency testing capabilities provide:
• Testing for all known vulnerabilities, including current and comprehensive security attacks
and thorough application protocol fuzzing to harden defenses.
• Line-rate traffic generation and session throughput of blended realistic applications to test
for vulnerabilities and performance issues under maximum load conditions.
• Automated tools that are consistently updated with the latest security vulnerabilities and
application protocols.
• Support for creating and testing proprietary application protocols and custom security
attacks.
• Ability to ensure compliance with the latest regulatory and industry standards.

Download the BreakingPoint Elite Resiliency data sheet and learn more about BreakingPoint
Government Solutions Group.

Quote from Des Wilson, CEO, BreakingPoint Systems

“Resiliency testing is clearly critical to identifying and eliminating threats to the security and
performance of our nation’s cyber infrastructure. And the definition of resiliency testing remains
simple; test the network and network devices using blended application traffic mixed with live
security strikes at line-rate speeds originating from the same address space. However, until
today, the government agencies and organizations tasked to optimize and defend the cyber
infrastructure did not have these capabilities. BreakingPoint Elite is the only testing tool
architected to simulate the conditions of an actual network, providing the resiliency testing
capabilities that help make it the only effective defense against net-centric threats and
performance issues.”

BreakingPoint Elite Resiliency Testing Advantages

BreakingPoint Elite is engineered for ultimate realism, responsiveness, and performance. With an
innovative network processor-driven design, a BreakingPoint chassis delivers authentic blended
Layer 4-7 application traffic and live security strikes at 40 Gigabits per second (Gbps) with 15
million simultaneous TCP sessions. Advantages include:

• Realistic Blended Application Traffic – BreakingPoint delivers a realistic blend of good,

bad and proprietary application traffic such as voice, video, data and virus attacks at up
to 40 Gbps in a 3-slot chassis.
• Scalable Network Simulation – Scale easily to simulate global networks, such as Cyber
Range, and apply load to test data centers and cloud services.
• Create Protocols and Security Strikes –Toolkits to create proprietary application
protocols and custom security attacks.
• Comprehensive Attack Coverage – Leverage unprecedented security coverage
including more than 4,200 live security attacks and full Microsoft Tuesday coverage.
• Botnet Command & Control and Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) Simulation –
Ensure network devices can detect Botnets and mitigate DDoS attacks.
• Complex Attack Scenarios – Simulate a wide range of sophisticated attacks with more
than 80 evasion techniques.
• Advanced Protocol Fuzzing – Identify performance issues or unknown vulnerabilities
quickly by testing with malicious or malformed data packets.
• Thorough Firewall and IPS Validation – Accelerate modernization of initiatives and
evaluate performance and security claims of vendors by testing for vulnerabilities under
peak load conditions.
• Accurate Data Leak Protection and Precise Anomaly Detection – Validate Deep
Packet Inspection (DPI) and filtering capabilities while ensuring monitoring and security
systems can identify elusive attacks.
• Standards Conformance – Conduct IPv4/IPv6 dual stack testing with the industry’s
most current IPv6 stack and validate conformance to specifications using current
standards such as Jumbo Frames.

About BreakingPoint
BreakingPoint accelerates the development and testing of high-performance content-aware
network equipment with fast, accurate, responsive, and easy-to-use application, performance and
security testing tools. BreakingPoint is headquartered in Austin, Texas, with offices throughout
the world. For more information visit www.breakingpoint.com and download the latest resources
for realistic firewall testing, IPS testing, server load testing and more.

For Information Contact:

Kyle Flaherty
BreakingPoint Systems
(512) 821-6059
kflaherty@breakingpoint.com
www.breakingpointlabs.com
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