About Altor Networks

The rapid adoption of virtualization technologies from leading industry influencers including VMware, Microsoft, Citrix, Oracle and Sun signals a major transition in the datacenter. Enterprises are achieving major benefits, including operational cost savings, consolidation of physical servers, and greatly streamlined deployment. However, understanding and locking down the security posture of virtualized datacenter infrastructures represents a significant challenge.

Gartner concluded in its March 2007 report entitled “Security Considerations and Best Practices for Securing Virtual Machines” that “virtualization offers IT departments opportunities to reduce cost and increase agility; however, if this is done without implementing best practices for security, the resultant security incidents will increase costs and reduce agility. Security must be ‘baked in’ from conception, not addressed later as an afterthought.”

Altor Networks is pioneering a new class of virtual security solutions to secure production-oriented virtualized data centers. The company’s initial product line includes the industry’s first-ever purpose-built virtual firewall, a software security appliance that runs in a virtualized environment and enforces security policy on a per virtual machine basis.  Data center administrators can now pinpoint a broad range of virtual network security compromises and easily create roles-based security policies. For the first time, security policies can be continuously enforced on individual virtual machines, even as they move throughout the virtualized data center. Founded by security and networking experts from Check Point Software, Cisco and Oracle, Altor Networks is funded by Accel Partners and Foundation Capital and is headquartered in Redwood City, California.