BreakingPoint and Stonesoft presentation "Know the Score: Measure the Security and Performance of Your Next IPS" at the 2011 RSA Conference.

1. Know the Score: Measure the Security
and Performance of Your Next IPS
February 15th at 3:30pm

2. Who is Stonesoft?
• Founded in 1990
• Global presence
– US Headquarters - Atlanta, GA
– Global Headquarters - Helsinki, Finland
– 60+ countries, 24 offices
• Next Generation Security Solutions: IPS,
FW/VPN, SSL VPN, and Centralized Management – all
High Availability
• Global innovator: 28 patents, 38 pending around High
Availability and Performance
• Focus on simplifying the management of network security
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3. IT Firestorm Threatens Business Performance

4. Is Your IPS Resilient to the Firestorm?
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5. 5 Keys to IPS Evaluation: #1
Performance Under Load + Attack
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6. 5 Keys to IPS Evaluation: #2
Security Under Load + Attack
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7. 5 Keys to IPS Evaluation: #3
Performance and Accuracy of Protocol Decoding
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8. 5 Keys to IPS Evaluation: #4
Detection of Obfuscated Attacks
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9. 5 Keys to IPS Evaluation: #5
Identify Memory Leaks
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10. How? Attack Thyself!
Real Attacks
• 4,500 live security attacks
• 100+ evasions
• Malware
• Spam
• DDoS and Botnet simulation
• Custom attacks
• Research and frequent updates
Real World Applications
• 150+ application protocols
• Social media, peer-to-peer, voice, video
• Web and enterprise applications, gaming INSERT R.S.
• Custom applications GRAPHIC
• Frequent updates
Unprecedented Performance
• 120 Gbps blended application traffic
• 90M concurrent TCP sessions
• 3M TCP sessions/second
• 38 Gbps SSL bulk encryption

11. Validating Intrusion Prevention Systems
Intrusion Prevention System
Blended Applications
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Live Security Strikes
+
Extreme User Load
+
Fault Injection/
Fuzzing
BreakingPoint Storm CTM
REMEMBER TO EVALUATE:
1. Performance Under Load + Attack
2. Security Under Load + Attack
3. Performance and Accuracy of Protocol Decoding
4. Detection of Obfuscated Attacks
5. Identify Memory Leakage

12. Questions and Answers
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