Network stress testing tools are not for the underfunded, the underskilled or the faint of heart. Consider them carefully before deciding whether to purchase them or how to use them. See the companion ...

Open source security frameworks help enterprises stay one step ahead of attackers by facilitating penetration testing and vulnerability assessments on wired and wireless networks. Picking just 10 ...

As technology advances, ensuring the security of computer systems, networks, and applications becomes increasingly critical. One of the ways in which security professionals can assess the security ...

Network security and performance are important aspects of design that are closely related. When designing a network, the security is a critical portion. Modern network security is achieved thru many ...

The last year has produced a rogues’ gallery of vulnerabilities in transport layer security implementations and new attacks on the key protocols, from Heartbleed to the Apple gotofail flaw to the ...

This vendor-written tech primer has been edited by Network World to eliminate product promotion, but readers should note it will likely favor the submitter’s approach. For all the advances in ...

One of the most useful tools in the VAST distribution for testing Unified Communications security is UCSniff. UCSniff includes a wide array of features that can be used to test voice vlan segmentation ...

Despite slow progress, NetSecOpen — a group of network security companies and hardware testing organizations — aims to have its testing and benchmark standards in place by later this year. The group ...

The latest network security testing product from Ixia targets cloud data centers and other large companies generating massive amounts of encrypted traffic. The product is called CloudStorm 25GE — the ...

Keysight’s BreakingPoint QuickTest simplifies application performance and security effectiveness assessments with predefined test configurations and self-stabilizing, goal-seeking algorithms to ...

Penetration testing, or pentesting, times have certainly changed. Years ago, when this speciality in offensive security was taking off, there was a large shift away from manual techniques to relying ...