1. BreakingPoint Resiliency Score™
BreakingPoint Resiliency Score
Stress and measure the performance and security for network devices and virtualized servers
Global enterprises, government agencies, and service providers
want measurable answers, not assurances, when it comes to the
performance, security, and stability of their networks and data
centers. The ever-increasing complexity of network tra c and data
center environments is exposing the weaknesses in public and
private IT infrastructures. The core reason? Billions of dollars’ worth
of network devices and data center implementations that do not Data Center
perform as promised when deployed, leading to costly outages,
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data losses, cyber attacks, and other failures.
BreakingPoint Resiliency Score: Ends the Vendor Data Sheet User Base
Guessing Game
The BreakingPoint Resiliency Score™ and the BreakingPoint
Data Center Resiliency Score™ put an end to relying on product
marketing literature by establishing standards against which
networks and data centers are measured. Each score provides
an automated, standardized, and deterministic method for
evaluating and ensuring resiliency. This feature of BreakingPoint
Measure the e ect of iterative changes to virtual resource
Cyber Tomography Machines (CTM)™ provides the standard
variables (VMs, vCPUs, memory, disk and I/O) to pinpoint the
measurement using real-world application tra c, real-time
maximum capacity and minimum resources required.
security attacks, extreme user load, and application fuzzing.
Certify that changes to the environment will not negatively
By using the BreakingPoint Resiliency Score, organizations can: impact existing capacity and that any new application mix or
Understand the exact performance, security, and stability of device remains optimized.
competitive products in a fraction of the time and save up
to 50% on IT infrastructure investments by purchasing only Calculating the BreakingPoint Resiliency Score
what’s needed. The BreakingPoint Resiliency Score is calculated using standards
Right size their infrastructure with advance insight into by organizations such as US–CERT, IEEE, and IETF, as well as real-
product capabilities and con guration requirements, while world tra c mixes from the world’s largest service providers. Users
avoiding virtual machine sprawl, performance bottlenecks, simply select the network or device for evaluation and the speed
security breaches, and outages. at which it is required to perform. The BreakingPoint CTM then
De nitively measure the number of concurrent users a runs a battery of simulations using a blended mix of application
virtualized server will support before response time and tra c and malicious attacks, including obfuscation and evasion
stability degrade. techniques. The BreakingPoint Resiliency Score simulation
Improve application performance and roll out new provides a common network con guration for all devices in order
applications and additional users with con dence with more to maintain fairness and consistency for all vendors.
granular preproduction insight into behavior.

2. BreakingPoint Resiliency Score
The BreakingPoint Resiliency Score is presented as a numeric
grade from 1 to 100. Networks and devices may receive no Contact BreakingPoint
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Both scores allow organizations to quickly understand the degree
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data centers before they can adversely a ect IT operations.
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