Best of breed product architectures are the choice of our customers and therefore drive our technology partnership efforts. While our focus has been integration with virtualization and security market leaders, our business development team is constantly looking to maximize Altor value to customers through leverage of installed technologies and applications that are must haves. We urge you to reach out and explore becoming a partner.
"Our extensive search for the best technology to help us enable highly secure, virtualized, and massively scalable data center led us to Altor."
— Douglas Murray,
Juniper SVP and GM
Juniper
Juniper Networks and Altor Networks have partnered to deliver a consistent, comprehensive security solution for the virutalized data center. The joint solution combines industry leading Juniper Networks’ physical network solutions with the pioneering Altor Networks’ virtualized server and network solutions, administered from a single-pane of glass.
"Altor VF is an excellent showcase to demonstrate how our technology partners can harness the potential of VMware VMsafe to deliver solutions like virtual firewalls by leveraging the unique capabilities of VMware vSphere 4. Security administrators can deploy Altor VF in combination with VMware vSphere 4 to achieve enhanced security available only in VMware environments."
— Shekar Ayyar,
VMware Vice President, Infrastructure Alliances
VMware
By delivering high-performance, purpose-built security to the virtualized data center, VMware and Altor enable customers to further the benefits of virtualization by creating private clouds for maximum efficiency, and virtualize mission-critical and applications subject to regulations.
"Complete visibility into every firewall, physical or virtual, in the network is key to effective security event management. The ArcSight and Altor integration gives customers a comprehensive solution across physical and virtual networks – without needing on-site integration or separate solutions"
— Jeff Scheel,
ArcSight
ArcSight
Using the ArcSight Common Event Format (CEF), Altor exports firewall logs and detailed information about network traffic from virtualized servers like VMware ESX to the ArcSight Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) Platform.
The ArcSight SIEM Platform provides both historical analysis and real-time event correlation that enable businesses and government agencies to reduce risk and increase visibility across their IT infrastructure. The ArcSight SIEM Platform enables IT managers to extend their reach into the virtual environment by incorporating event logs from the Altor VF virtual firewall.
"The partnership between Altor Networks and Mazu Networks gives customers access to flow-level visibility to the traffic moving between VMs within a virtual environment. Visibility into virtualized environments for security and availability management continues to be a growing concern for our customers. By closing this gap, enterprises can minimize the risks associated with VM rollouts"
— Charles Kaplan,
Mazu Networks
Riverbed
The integration will deliver the only virtual security solution available on the market today that uses NBA to secure and enforce policies on individual virtual machines (VM) – even as VMs migrate around the data center using VMotion/DRS.
Mazu Profiler offers organizations a new way of looking at the IT infrastructure and provides significant value to network, security and data center operations teams. By using Mazu Profiler’s comprehensive behavior-based analytics, IT teams gain a true end-to-end view of the application delivery path from back-end servers to the users’ desktops. Mazu Profiler learns the typical behavior patterns and interactions of and dependencies between users, applications, network and systems. Mazu Profiler is the only solution that uses advanced behavior-based analysis to detect application, network and security issues to ensure the constant delivery of critical business applications. Integrating Mazu Profiler with Altor VF virtual firewall brings the value of behavior-based analysis of network flow data to the virtual, physical and VMotion environments.
Mazu’s technology is now Riverbed Cascade.
Microsoft
Altor exports Entire IP Sessions from the VMware ESX server to the Microsoft NetMon Network Protocol Analyzer.
The Altor VF can be configured to mirror traffic from any source to the Microsoft NetMon network protocol analyzer. The Microsoft NetMon can then perform packet and protocol inspection offline.
The Altor VF provides a great deal of flexibility in determining which packets to mirror to the Microsoft NetMon including by any combination of internal or external VM or server, any source port, and/or destination port.
NetQoS
Altor exports NetFlow Stats and detailed information about network traffic from virtualized servers like VMware ESX to the NetQoS Performance Center.
The NetQoS Performance Center Platform provides both historical analysis and real-time event correlation that enable businesses and government agencies to reduce risk and increase visibility across their IT infrastructure. The NetQoS Performance Center Platform enables IT managers to extend their reach into the virtual environment by incorporating event logs from the Altor VF virtual firewall.
Snort
Altor exports Entire IP Sessions from the VMware ESX server to the Snort Intrusion Prevention and Detection System.
The Altor VF can be configured to mirror traffic from any source to the Snort intrusion prevention and detection system. Snort can be configured as either a VM or an external device. Snort then performs signature, protocol and anomaly based inspection methods to detect malware in these streams.
The Altor VF provides a great deal of flexibility in determining which packets to mirror to the Snort System including by any combination of internal or external VM or server, any source port, and/or destination port.
WireShark
Altor exports Entire IP Sessions from the VMware ESX server to the WireShark Network Protocol Analyzer.
The Altor VF can be configured to mirror traffic from any source to the WireShark network protocol analyzer. The WireShark can then perform deep inspection of hundreds of protocols and live capture and offline analysis.
The Altor VF provides a great deal of flexibility in determining which packets to mirror to the WireShark including by any combination of internal or external VM or server, any source port, and/or destination port.