Case Study: Yahoo! achieves resilient, high-performance, secure network and cloud infrastructure with Keysight BreakingPoint

Yahoo! Ensures Performance, Security and Stability of Network Equipment and Cloud Infrastructure

Yahoo! — operating one of the world’s largest network and cloud infrastructures — needed a way to validate performance, availability and security of servers, load balancers, routers, switches and massive firewalls under realistic, Internet‑scale traffic and live attacks. To meet that need, Yahoo! adopted Keysight’s BreakingPoint solution (including BreakingPoint ATI updates and PerfectStorm ONE appliances) to recreate mixed application traffic, millions of users, and live threat conditions that the security team could not previously reproduce.

Keysight’s BreakingPoint simulated real application loads, protocol fuzzing and live attacks, produced deterministic BreakingPoint Resiliency Scores, and standardized device evaluations prior to purchase and deployment. As a result, Yahoo! can measure and add capacity to withstand peak loads, validate defenses against large‑scale DDoS, probe infrastructure weaknesses with tens of thousands of attack simulations, and conduct repeatable, vendor‑neutral testing that improves ROI and overall infrastructure resiliency.

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