Altor v4.0
Key Benefits
- Visibility: full view to all applications flowing between VMs and how they are used. Complete VM and VM group inventory, including virtual network settings. Deep knowledge of VM state, including installed applications and services through VM Introspection.
- Compliance: enforcement of corporate and regulatory policies for must-have installed applications and services. Assurance of segregation of duties by use of VM Introspection to limit VMs to desired groups and VLAN assignments.
- Control: access control over all traffic via policies that define which ports, protocols, destination VMs, etc., should be blocked. Deep inspection of allowed traffic for malware suppression and intrusion detection.
Enforcing Security Policies in the Virtual Environment
Server and desktop virtualization is revolutionizing the data center, delivering major capacity utilization and productivity improvements. It is also dramatically changing the enterprise network by adding a rapidly growing “virtual network” of virtual machines (VMs) connected to each other and the physical world through virtual switches. Yet even basic security practices – including monitoring network activity, inspecting and filtering traffic, and maintaining strictly separate security domains – are often absent in the virtual environment. Inter-VM communication in particular is a blind spot. This traffic never touches the physical network, making it invisible to physical network monitoring tools and unprotected by physical network security.
The risks of an invisible, uncontrolled network with no enforceable security policies are sobering. Among them is the potential for privilege escalation when VM workloads with different trust levels, such as Production and QA, reside on the same physical server. This risk is amplified when VMs move from host to host via VMotion and DRS.
Data Sheets & Guides
Altor v4.0 Datasheet [PDF]
Altor General Datasheet [PDF]
Altor and PCI Compliance [PDF]