
DDoS Storm:
DDoS Attack Generator
Simulate DDoS Attacks at High Scale
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Test and Measure Your Defense Against DDoS (Distributed Denial of Services) Attacks
DDoS attackers use botnets – a network of compromised devices – to bring down a targeted network or server using a large scale of valid requests. While many organizations rely on firewalls, load balancers and other devices to protect their networks, true DDoS attack mitigation requires constant monitoring, detection, and testing to maintain business operations and avoid disastrous losses.
Simulate DDoS Attacks
DDoS Storm generates DDoS attacks to test the performance of networks and cybersecurity devices like Web Application Firewalls (WAFs), shields, routers and switches in a secure environment.
Test against an extremely high scale of requests to identify security vulnerabilities. Use DDoS Storm to find the breaking point of your network devices before a real attack shuts down your entire operation.

Benefits
- Perform DDoS testing to measure the effectiveness of your DDoS mitigation techniques and network security devices like Web Application Firewalls (WAFs).
- Analyze the ability of devices under test (DUTs) to recognize and allow legitimate traffic amidst a flood of malicious requests.
- Test your entire stack with one solution by simulating multi-vector, multi-stage attacks against layers 2-7.
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- Generate large volumes of legitimate and bot traffic from different regions simultaneously to identify potential points of entry for attackers.
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- Harden your defenses against DDoS attacks to reduce downtime and avoid losses.
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- Validate vendor performance claims and gauge he impact of new solutions on compliance and cyber insurance premiums.
Perform DDoS Stress Tests
DDoS Storm allows users to create realistic attack scenarios by configuring specific details of the attack including the regions it’s launched from, the number of compromised devices, how fast the attack ramps up, and how often it repeats.
Configure tests quickly and easily with DDoS Storm’s modern, wizard-driven user interface or automate testing using RESTful API.

DDoS Storm is available on high performance appliances and virtual machines.
- Test DDoS protection, alert, and mitigation against realistic attack scenarios at massive scale
- Simulate bad actors controlling hundreds of thousands of bots
- Generate attacks from L2 to L7 to evaluate every layer of the network stack
- Combine DDoS attacks with legitimate traffic
- Simulate attacks from specific regions and countries around the world
- Control how fast attacks ramp up and how often they repeat
- Combine and cycle attack vectors
- Act as the attacker (one port) or both the attacker and target (two ports)
- Validate defenses in closed-lab environments without disrupting operations
Configure tests with ease on the feature-rich, browser-based GUI or with our comprehensive RESTful API for increased automation. Run multiple tests at once and keep them running in the background, collaborate with your team, and easily connect and perform tests from anywhere.
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Traffic Generation Use Cases
SD-WAN Evaluation and Optimization
- Evaluate SD-WAN controllers, validate SD-WAN architectures, or optimize SD-WAN implementations
- Emulate clients, servers, and realistic application traffic.
- Choose from our extensive library of app flows and protocols
- Integrate with Netropy Network Emulators for an end-to-end SD-WAN performance testing solution

Next Generation Firewall Testing
- Validate firewall performance, security, and resiliency
- Replicate real-world application traffic at scale
- Create custom application mixes, then emulate application servers and thousands of simultaneous users
- Ensure that malware is stopped while authorized traffic passes through to its destination

Site-to-Site Application Performance Testing
- Verify application performance between two remote sites
- Validate tools like WAN accelerators with a variety of application mixes and protocols
- Capture and replay live production traffic in a controlled setting
- Emulate both sites and generate the network traffic passing between them at scale

High-Scale Readiness Testing
- Emulate video conference sessions at scale
- Verify the corporate VPN can handle high volumes of traffic
- Generate multi-media traffic to ensure firewalls are set up correctly
- Determine whether routers are prioritizing traffic as designated by your QoS
