BreakingPoint Storm CTM - The Alternative to Costly and Complex Cyber Range Data Sheet

1. BreakingPoint Storm CTM™:
The Alternative to Costly and Complex Cyber Ranges
The BreakingPoint Storm CTM™: The Alternative to
Costly and Complex Cyber Ranges
Unleash Internet-scale cyber war in a controlled environment to measure the resiliency of network and data
center infrastructures, advance research and development, and train cyber warriors
Cyber ranges are critical tools for hardening the resiliency—security, attack. With its innovative, future-proof approach to delivering the
stability, and performance—of vital government, military, and capabilities of a traditional cyber range from a 3-slot chassis, a single
intelligence cyber infrastructures. Yet cyber ranges require massive BreakingPoint Storm CTM emulates a complete global network with:
amounts of disparate equipment from multiple vendors, large • A blend of stateful application and malicious traffic at 40
numbers of skilled personnel, and long development and testing Gigabits per second
cycles. In the past, only this resource-intensive approach could • An always-current mix of traffic from hundreds of real-world
generate the real-world conditions needed to harden defenses application protocols and thousands of attacks
against the full spectrum of cyber threats. • The ability to create and accelerate custom applications and
attacks
Building and maintaining a cyber range by throwing hardware • More than 30 million concurrent TCP sessions to emulate
and personnel at the problem is a costly and wasteful exercise. This millions of users
inefficiency does not make sense in an era of flattened defense • Comprehensive security coverage including attacks, fuzzing,
budgets and scarce human resources. More importantly, this malware, obfuscations, and evasions
approach simply cannot scale to address traffic volume and attacks • Built-in traffic profiles and use-case methodologies to
that are multiplying in both quantity and complexity. These realities accelerate productivity
mandate a new model for the modern cyber range—a “leap-ahead”
technological approach that unleashes Internet-scale cyber war Exclusive Capabilities
from a single comprehensive, easy-to-maintain device. Attack, measure, and harden the resiliency of network and data
center infrastructures with unprecedented performance and
The BreakingPoint Storm CTM: Complete Cyber Range realism.
Functionality and Massive Scale in a Small Footprint • Only the BreakingPoint Storm CTM can emulate your own
The BreakingPoint Cyber Tomography Machine (CTM) answers this large-scale network conditions with the performance, stateful
challenge because it embodies the power and scope of a cyber applications, and current attacks needed to fully validate the
range, but without requiring multi-million-dollar expenditures deep packet inspection (DPI) technologies prevalent in today’s
and teams of engineers to set up and maintain. The patented networks and data centers.
BreakingPoint Storm CTM is used by government and military • The product includes more than 150 application protocols,
organizations, as well as leading defense contractors, global including AOL® IM, Yahoo!® Mail and Messenger, Google® Gmail,
enterprises, and service providers, to harden networks and data Skype®, BitTorrent™, eDonkey, RADIUS, SIP, mobile network,
centers to be resilient in the face of escalating application load and social network, and gaming protocols. It also provides more
than 4,500 attacks and is backed by an Application and Threat
Intelligence research team dedicated to keeping applications
and attacks current, delivering Microsoft Tuesday coverage, and
providing frequent feature and performance enhancements.
• The integrated BreakingPoint Resiliency Score™ provides
standardized and repeatable measurements of the security,
stability, and performance of every component of networks
and data centers. Developed using standards by organizations
such as US–CERT, IEEE, and the IETF, as well as insight into traffic
from the world’s largest service providers, it provides advance
insight into how your product or environment will be impacted

2. BreakingPoint Storm CTM™:
The Alternative to Costly and Complex Cyber Ranges
by changes such as peak user load, network reconfiguration, simulated Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) and botnet
and new security attacks. attacks, and leverage the BreakingPoint Custom Toolkits to
• The BreakingPoint Storm CTM subjects massive virtualized develop and accelerate your own applications and attacks.
infrastructures to peak user load and attack to evaluate and • Emulate, attack, and evaluate network operations and security
optimize the resiliency of cloud services. defenses at any level of detail using one of the industry’s largest
• It also includes an easy-to-use automated lab for validating packet capture buffers.
Lawful Intercept and Data Loss Prevention solutions using a
BreakingPoint Storm CTM Specifications
digital storm of content from evergreen application protocols
Based on a patented breakthrough in network processor
and communications in multiple languages.
architecture and backed by a team of network performance and
Conduct advanced and repeatable research and development security experts, only the BreakingPoint Storm CTM produces
experiments with this automated and configurable solution. Internet-scale cyber war conditions in a comprehensive, easy-to-use,
• The BreakingPoint Storm CTM accurately simulates the real- and low-maintenance product. This 3-slot chassis device provides
world scale and complexities of cyber warfare with prebuilt the equivalent performance and capabilities of hundreds of racks of
traffic profiles, real applications and attacks, and the behavior high performance servers, including:
of millions of users to evaluate and accelerate advances in • 40 Gigabits per second of blended stateful application traffic
offensive and defensive technologies. • 30 million concurrent TCP sessions
• Multiple BreakingPoint Storm CTMs can also be combined • 1.5 million TCP sessions per second
using a single interface and a single configuration for even
• 80,000+ SSL sessions per second
greater performance; previous deployments have emulated up
• 600,000+ complete TCP sessions per second
to 300,000,000 Internet users at once.
• 150+ stateful application protocols
• The product creates a barrage of unstructured data in multiple
languages, allowing users to conduct experiments in data • 4,500+ live security attacks
detection, intercept, and analysis. To find out more about what BreakingPoint can do for your
• BreakingPoint also provides a BreakingPoint Custom organization, contact the BreakingPoint Government Solutions
Application Toolkit and Custom Attack Toolkit to accelerate the Group at government@breakingpoint.com, 703.443.1501 or visit
delivery of custom attacks and proprietary applications, and www.breakingpoint.com/demo to schedule an evaluation.
analyze the results.
• With BreakingPoint’s Psuedo Random Number Generation
(PRNG) capabilities, users can produce random yet repeatable
simulations using a PRNG seed to accelerate troubleshooting or
analyze the effects.
• Automated reporting provides rapid analysis and presentation of
massive amounts of data to determine exactly what happened
in each simulation, down to the level of each user simulated.
Evaluate and train cyber warriors by creating sophisticated,
distributed, and current cyber war exercises.
• Just as a physical training ground allows soldiers to
demonstrate and improve their combat skills, the
BreakingPoint Storm CTM provides combatant commanders
a digital environment in which to train, evaluate, and develop
defensive and offensive capabilities.
• Carry out sophisticated red team / blue team exercises, assess
information assurance capabilities, measure the quality of incident
response procedures, and more by simulating real attacks.
• Conduct realistic opposing force (OPFOR) exercises, including
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