According to the National Institute of Standards and Technology’s National Vulnerability Database, there are currently more than 38,000 known security vulnerabilities. Not only is this number growing, but there are thousands additional unknown vulnerabilities being discovered and written each day. In order to test with any and all security strikes, BreakingPoint today introduced a Custom Strike Toolkit, allowing users to write and simulate their own security strikes when testing network equipment and application servers.

News Overview

• BreakingPoint provides network equipment manufacturers (NEMs), service providers and application server vendors with the most comprehensive vulnerability testing coverage including:
1. BreakingPoint Custom Strike Toolkit provides the ability to write your own security strikes to run on BreakingPoint’s hardware in a matter of hours.
2. Custom strikes are included in network simulation tests and can be blended with BreakingPoint’s 4,200+ critical security strikes and full Microsoft Tuesday coverage, along with 80+ application protocols and any protocols created with the BreakingPoint Custom Application Protocol Toolkit.
• BreakingPoint also provides Botnet Command & Control and Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) simulation, more than 80 evasion techniques and advanced protocol fuzzing.
• BreakingPoint’s Custom Strike Toolkit is available to BreakingPoint users as an upgrade to existing maintenance agreements.