Enhancing Application Load Testing: Cloud Security Alliance 2011
Channel: BreakingPointSystems
Date: 2011-12-15

During the recent Cloud Security Alliance Congress, BreakingPoint's Scott Register presented to a large crowd on how to move beyond functional testing prior to deploying any cloud initiative. Scott talked with the audience about how to move beyond functional load testing, including addressing their perceptions of it being too costly to scale load to reflect their actual traffic. As Scott demonstrated live, functional load testing alone is not sufficient, and companies must understand how their infrastructure will perform under real world conditions, which includes actual user load, application traffic, and security attacks.

In this video Scott shares a quick overview of the presentation, and how companies can easily and cost-effectively validate the performance and security of any cloud deployment using their actual user load. By augmenting functional testing tools, such as HP Loadrunner, with BreakingPoint's all-in-one performance and security testing solution, companies can easily and cost-effectively scale and enhance their functional testing. This includes not only proper load, but also true application traffic and live security attacks.