BreakingPoint Replaces Network Security Voodoo With the

Measurable and Deterministic Science of Cyber

Tomography
BreakingPoint replaces product assurances with world’s first Cyber Tomography
Machine (CTM), which radiates high-stress assaults into a network infrastructure to
identify vulnerabilities and weaknesses

AUSTIN, Texas – May 4, 2010 – BreakingPoint today introduced the world’s first
Cyber Tomography Machine (CTM), a product designed for an interconnected world
that is inundated with escalating network traffic and cyber attacks from a growing
list of enemies. A CTM is the only product that allows organizations to pinpoint
previously impossible-to-detect vulnerabilities and stress fractures in network
components such as routers, switches, firewalls, servers and data centers before
they are exposed and wreak havoc in critical network infrastructures.

The Problem: A Global Network Infrastructure Rotting From the Core

Global networks are under attack from a wide range of enemies, including nation-
states, criminal gangs and hackers. At the same time, this cyber infrastructure is
being hit by high-stress application traffic that continues to evolve in complexity.
• The global network infrastructure relied upon by our governments, enterprises
and service providers was never validated to be impervious to that high-stress
and malicious traffic, and it is now crumbling.i
• No company or organization is impervious to cyber attack or downtime caused
by high-stress load. Just last week The New York Times reportedii that a breach of
Google may have reached its password system. Global financial services
companies, communications networks and even the United States Department of
Defense have all felt the crippling effects of brittle networks.
• The time has come to examine the root of the problem: the deployment of
billions of dollars’ worth of devices and applications that are not resilient to real-
time cyber attacks or real-world application load.

The Issues: Perilous Interconnectivity and Increased Liability

Our world has become dramatically interconnected. Estimates show that by 2013
there will be more than 1 trillion connected devices.iii The benefits of that
interconnectivity are readily evident; however, the threats are equally perilous, with
the growth of widespread vulnerabilities and escalating attacks that morph to evade
detection.
• Years of neglect of the performance and security of network infrastructure
devices have left us all exposed to cyber exploitation, theft and acts of terrorism.
• The risks are only escalating, as we witness the theft of billions of dollarsiv and
vital intellectual property,v as well as increased legal liabilitiesvi and threats to
national security.vii
• The companies that should be helping with the problem, test vendors, are mired
in legacy thinking, believing that their old methods based on simple and
megabit-driven networks would translate to testing gigabit-driven and content-
aware networks.
• Security is often considered “voodoo” or someone else’s problem and not a
deterministic science that can be properly measured and then addressed.

The Solution: Hardening the Core Through Cyber Tomography

Cybersecurity is a complex and dynamic discipline filled with more “voodoo” and
rhetoric than science and action. While equipment vendors are mired in legacy
behavior, our governments are passing legislation demanding more realistic
validation of what they call the “resiliency” of cyber infrastructure.
• Enterprises and service providers are demanding resiliency, and they need the
technology and methodologies that allow for efficient detection of previously
hidden weaknesses and vulnerabilities in their networks.
• BreakingPoint has provided the solution by pioneering the world’s first Cyber
Tomography Machine (CTM), the BreakingPoint Storm CTM . Cyber Tomography
marks the end of unrealistic testing and ushers in an era of true measurement of
the performance, security and stability of cyber infrastructure devices and
systems.
• Until now, there was no way to determine how key components of a global
network would hold up under crippling conditions, including cyber attack and
high-stress application load. Cyber Tomography provides a scientific method of
identifying the weaknesses and vulnerabilities of a cyber infrastructure
component by measuring its resiliency under cyber attack and high-stress traffic
load.
• Cyber Tomography, like the medical computed tomography (CT) scan, which
allowed physicians to visualize the inner workings of the complex human body to
detect impossible-to-see abnormalities, is a breakthrough in cybersecurity.
BreakingPoint’s Cyber Tomography Machine (CTM), the BreakingPoint Storm
CTM , emits extreme applications and malicious traffic into network devices
and systems while recording and displaying the effects over time.

A Shift Towards Resiliency Networks

“Over the past two decades, legacy testing providers have conspired to provide
equipment vendors with hollow tools that make products shine on a data sheet but
provide zero deterministic data,” said BreakingPoint CEO Des Wilson. “And, for too
long, equipment vendors have grown comfortable sitting on top of these unrealistic
performance metrics while their continuous performance and security failures have
left us all exposed. The penalties and risks now associated with cyber attacks, data
breaches and downtime continue to escalate, while global networks are riddled with
stress fractures that simply cannot hold up to the realities of today’s threats and
high-stress applications. Now is the time to replace the voodoo of product
assurances with proven methodologies and deterministic science.”

Mr. Wilson continued, “The shift is already happening. New legislation is making its
way through the state and federal levels, requiring resiliency certification of IT
equipment. Global organizations are demanding a deterministic and ever-current
means to measure the security and performance of their next-generation networks.
It is this need that BreakingPoint is uniquely positioned to meet with Cyber
Tomography. Our ability to simulate real-world applications, real-time security
attacks, millions of users and gigabit speeds eliminates the voodoo and rhetoric
from cybersecurity, replacing it with actionable intelligence to harden cyber
infrastructure.”

About BreakingPoint
BreakingPoint pioneered the first and only Cyber Tomography Machine (CTM) to
expose previously impossible-to-detect stress fractures within cyber infrastructure
components before they are exploited to compromise customer data, corporate
assets, brand reputation and even national security. BreakingPoint is the standard
by which the world’s governments, enterprises and service providers determine the
resiliency and security of their cyber infrastructure. For more information, visit
www.breakingpoint.com.

Contact:
Kyle Flaherty
BreakingPoint Systems
(512) 821-6059
kflaherty@breakingpoint.com
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i
Technolytics Institute, Focusing on Protecting Critical Infrastructure Cyber Protection (McMurray, Pa.: 2009),
2, 3
ii
The New York Times, “Cyberattack on Google Said to Hit Password System,” http://nyti.ms/b6ujbW, April 19,
2010
iii
Eric Savitz, “1 Trillion Net Connected Devices by 2013, Cisco Says,” Barron’s, March 24, 2010
iv
Federal Bureau of Investigation, 2009 Internet Crime Report (Washington, D.C.: 2010), 6
v
Federal Bureau of Investigation, 2009 Internet Crime Report (Washington, D.C.: 2010), 5
vi
Lloyd’s, “Cyber Liability,” http://bit.ly/bPTAH5, Jan. 7, 2010
vii
Grant Gross, “Senators Question Cyber Command’s Role,” Computerworld, April 15, 2010