DATA SHEET

BreakingPoint Virtual Edition (VE)

Virtualized application and security testing

Problem: The Virtualization of Network Security

Functions Brings Many Unknowns

The current generation of networks need to adapt quickly and facilitate change. Strategies like Network

Functions Virtualization (NFV) and Software Defined Networking (SDN) provide powerful flexibility gains

by moving traditional application and security functions (such as application delivery, load balancing, data

packet inspection, firewall, intrusion prevention system, and sandbox components) off dedicated

hardware onto virtualized servers. These virtualized devices must deliver the same or better performance

and security efficacy comparing with the traditional hardware appliances. Without a way to properly test

these virtualized application and security devices, customer quality of experience is at risk.

Solution: An Easy-to-Use Testing Ecosystem for

Virtualized Infrastructure

BreakingPoint VE provides scalable real-world application and threat simulation in a deployment model

that fits IT budgets by leveraging virtualization and industry-standard hardware platforms. Build resilient

physical or virtual networks you can rely on by using BreakingPoint VE to maximize security investments

and optimize network architectures. The market-proven BreakingPoint application offers cost-effective,

elastic, and sharable virtualized test capabilities that are quickly deployed and scaled across geo-diverse

enterprise-wide networks. This is made possible by a flexible traffic generation and analysis solution to

validate physical and virtual devices and networks at scale. The real-time statistics allow quick

identification of security problems and isolate the breaking points. Because BreakingPoint VE is as easy

to use as it is effective, you do not have to be a security or virtualization expert to achieve complete end-

to-end service validation.

The BreakingPoint VE subscription model is aligned with enterprise project-based IT OpEx funding

requirements. Acquire the tools quickly, scale up and scale down as project needs demand, and deploy

anywhere with virtualization speed and simplicity.

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Figure 1. BreakingPoint VE deployment for both virtual and physical device tests

Highlights

• Test the most critical components of virtual and physical application-aware devices and networks.

Validate various attacks and distributed denial of service (DDoS) defenses.

• Optimize the configuration of virtual or physical network security devices such as IDS, IPS, DLP,

UTM, NGFW, WAF, web proxy, and others.

• Keep up with the ever-evolving threat landscape by updating your applications, attacks, and

malware via the daily Applications and Threats Intelligence updates.

• Assess how virtual machine mobility impacts application reliability and scalability. Run the tests

during live migration to ensure minimum network downtime.

• Validate next generation 5G / NFV networks by testing within Private Clouds / Telco Clouds

• Understand how network applications are affected by deployment within different Public Clouds

such as Alibaba Cloud, Amazon AWS, Google Cloud, or Microsoft Azure.

• Leverage subscription-based licensing that enables the flexibility of pay-as-you-grow OpEx model

with different licenses available in multiple performance levels (such as 1G / 10G / 100G).