http://altornetworks.com Securing the Virtualized DataCenter Fri, 03 Oct 2008 15:18:00 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Independent Expert Judging Panel Validates Product’s Innovation, Value, Performance and Ease of Use Redwood City, Calif., September 19, 2008 - Altor Networks, pioneering a new class of virtual network security solutions, today announced that an independent group of judges selected the Altor Networks Virtual Network Security Analyzer as a Security and ... http://altornetworks.com/news-events/top-security-vendor-at-vmworld-2008/ A sysadmin often deals with trouble; so where does virtualization fit in? By Patrick Thibodeau, Computerworld, 09/17/2008 While VMware Inc. worked to share its cloud computing vision at its annual conference here, some of the systems administrators on hand were more focused on the kinds of problems that cause a BlackBerry ... http://altornetworks.com/news-events/virtualizations-less-than-sexy-side/ By Altor Networks, SC Magazine, September 2008 issue What is it? VMware ESX Server administrators control all aspects of virtual machine hardware. They also create, control and manage VMs, so an attacker who gains control of the management service can cause tremendous damage. How does it work? VMware VirtualCenter management server is a Windows-based ... http://altornetworks.com/news-events/virtual-flaws/ Uncovering the blind spots in virtual server and desktop environments By Denise Dubie , Network World , 09/11/2008 Technologies that promise to virtualize servers, applications and desktops can also introduce vulnerabilities, according to industry watchers and a handful of vendors hoping to address these threats with updated technologies at VMworld 2008. For its ... http://altornetworks.com/news-events/vendors-tackle-virtualization-security/ Network Security Analyzer Selected a 2008 Best Products and Services Winner in Virtualization Security Category Redwood City, Calif., August 18, 2008 - Altor Networks, pioneering a new class of virtual network security solutions, today announced that Network Products Guide, a Silicon Valley Communications publication and a world leading publication on technologies ... http://altornetworks.com/news-events/reader-trust-award/ by George Lawton Network security, especially network access control (NAC), is the Achilles’ heel of server virtualization. With virtual servers moving around the data center, traditional access control is difficult to apply. This can be particularly challenging when organizations need to meet stringent data audit control standards for compliance with payment ... http://altornetworks.com/news-events/compliance-in-virtualized-world/ Altor Networks, pioneering a new class of virtual network security solutions, today announced that its Virtual Network Security Analyzer ™ (VNSA) is now a VMware Certified Virtual Appliance and available through the VMware (NYSE: VMW) Virtual Appliance Marketplace. Virtual appliances are pre-built software solutions, composed of one or more virtual ... http://altornetworks.com/news-events/altor-certified-for-vmware/ VNSA Is Now A VMware Certified Virtual Appliance and Available through the VMware Virtual Appliance Marketplace Altor Networks announced that its Virtual Network Security Analyzer (VNSA) is now a VMware Certified Virtual Appliance and available through the VMware Virtual Appliance Marketplace. Virtual appliances are pre-built software solutions, composed of one or ... http://altornetworks.com/news-events/ltor-certified-vmware/ Redwood City, Calif., July 1, 2008 - Altor Networks, pioneering a new class of virtual network security solutions, today announced that its Virtual Network Security Analyzer (VNSA) is now a VMware Certified Virtual Appliance and available through the VMware Virtual Appliance Marketplace (www.vmware.com/appliances). Virtual appliances are pre-built software solutions, ... http://altornetworks.com/news-events/vmware-certified/ The startup will soon offer a virtual firewall to complement its virtual network analyzer by Andrew Conry-Murray, June 21 Virtualized servers can be black boxes: Information goes in and comes out, but IT often doesn’t have a good handle on what’s actually happening inside. Altor Networks offers monitoring and firewall software to ... http://altornetworks.com/news-events/startup-of-the-week/ By Altor Networks, SC Magazine, June 2008 issue What is it? Virtualization platform solutions contain a software network switch/bridge. This is used by virtual machines (VMs) to communicate. With the density of VMs within a physical server increasing, the virtual switch is the true network access layer. The virtual switch is a ... http://altornetworks.com/news-events/threat-of-the-month-vm-switch/ Big Blue is stepping up its efforts to go “green.” On Wednesday, IBM rolled out a suite of new energy efficient technologies and services to help businesses struggling with surging costs and tougher sustainability requirements… With this announcement, IBM is joining a fast-growing sector - with startups like Altor Networks, ScaleMP and ... http://altornetworks.com/news-events/ibm-targets-green/ Industry’s First Virtual Network Analyzer Selected in ‘Innovative Products of the Year’ and ‘Security Product of the Year’ Categories June 11, 2008, REDWOOD CITY, Calif. Altor Networks, pioneering a new class of virtual network security solutions, today announced that TechWorld, a premier site for networking professionals has named Altor’s Virtual Network ... http://altornetworks.com/news-events/techworld-finalist/ Industry’s First Virtual Network Analyzer Selected in “Innovative Products of the Year” and “Security Product of the Year” Categories Altor Networks, pioneering a new class of virtual network security solutions, today announced that TechWorld, a premier site for networking professionals has named Altor’s Virtual Network Security Analyzer™ (VNSA) a finalist in ... http://altornetworks.com/news-events/altor-named-finalist-reuter/ Altor Networks Virtual Network Firewall Nominated for “Best Virtual Security” 19 May. Specifically built to secure inter-VM communications in highly dynamic virtual network environments, Altor’s Virtual Network Firewall enforces granular security policies that remain “attached” to individual VMs, even as they move about the data center. Centrally managed, the VNF ... http://altornetworks.com/news-events/virtualization-journal-award/ To bring VM sprawl under control, virtual deployments need the same controls as physical deployments. 16 May 08. Sure, security risks to your virtual systems exist. Some are rare, like virtual rootkit attacks and other theoretical vulnerabilities. Others are more practical, such as the potential loss of visibility into intraserver ... http://altornetworks.com/news-events/the-right-security-tools/ Altor Networks Says the Kind of Security Used On Physical Machines Flat-Out Doesn’t Work In the Virtual World 12 May 08. Altor Networks, a 14-month-old start-up backed by $6 million in funding from Accel Partners and Foundation Capital, says the kind of security used on physical machines flat-out doesn’t work in ... http://altornetworks.com/news-events/altor-applies-network-thinking/ Given the sparse options for monitoring traffic between VMs, smaller vendors can make a play. 30 April 2008, eWeek. Larger firewall vendors may face challenges from smaller companies looking to make their mark filtering communication between virtual machines. The interest in protecting virtual environments has spurred a number of startups and ... http://altornetworks.com/news-events/protecting-virtual-environments/ Industry’s First “VNSA” a Winner in the “Virtual Network Security” Category April 28, 2008, REDWOOD CITY, Calif. Altor Networks, pioneering a new class of virtual network security solutions, today announced that Info Security Products Guide, a Silicon Valley Communications publication and the world’s leading publication on security-related products and technologies, has ... http://altornetworks.com/news-events/info-security-products-guide-award/ 24 April 2008, The New York Times. Altor Networks, a network security start-up, said Wednesday it raised $6 million in a second funding round led by Accel Partners and Foundation Capital. The Red Herring said the company is “one of a handful of firms targeting what they claim is a security blind ... http://altornetworks.com/news-events/nyt-altor-funding/ April 24, VentureBeat As data centers and IT departments shift more resources into virtualization, splitting a single server into multiple nodes (or vice versa), security problems and side effects from existing security software are beginning to pop up. Altor Networks is a company that is working to streamline the process of adding ... http://altornetworks.com/news-events/venture-beat-altor-funding/ by Cassimir Medford Network security startup Altor Networks on Wednesday said it raised $6 million in a second funding round led by Accel Partners and Foundation Capital. The Redwood City, California based startup is one of a handful of firms targeting what they claim is a security blind spot for many modern ... http://altornetworks.com/news-events/altor-redherring/ By Scott Denne As virtualization becomes an ever-larger part of data centers, Altor Networks Inc. has raised $6 million in Series A financing to develop and sell products that provide security to virtual environments. Accel Partners and Foundation Capital co-led the round. The two firms also provided the company with just under ... http://altornetworks.com/news-events/altor-locks-down-venturewire/ Virtual Network Security Innovator Lands New Financing Round to Expand Product Development, Marketing and Sales to Support Company Growth REDWOOD CITY, Calif. - Altor Networks, pioneering a new class of virtual network security solutions, today announced it has secured a $6 million second round of financing led by Accel Partners and ... http://altornetworks.com/news-events/financing-accel-foundation/ April 22, VentureDeal. Network security company Altor Networks has raised a series B round of financing in the amount of $6 million. Altor provides virtual data center administrators with visibility and security solutions across multiple virtualization platforms with centralized policy management tools. (full article) http://altornetworks.com/news-events/venturedeal-second-round/ Network security company Altor Networks raised $6 million in venture funding. The Redwood City company got the money from Accel Partners and Foundation Capital. Ashmeet Sidana of Foundation Capital sits on Altor’s board of directors. Amir Ben-Efraim, who started Altor along with Ulrich Stern, is its CEO. Stern is chief ... http://altornetworks.com/news-events/altor-sf-bus-times/ 9 April 2008, Dan Fost, The New York Times The advent of virtualization software has made it possible for companies to use virtual computers to run various critical tasks, wringing more work from their computers. The software enables a single computer to run several different operating systems, or several copies ... http://altornetworks.com/news-events/nyt-closing-doors/ By George Hulme There are plenty of virtualization security vendors leaping out of the shadows. Here are five new players worth a look. Altor Networks. This company’s Virtual Network Security Analyzer and Virtual Network Firewall (available later this year) aim to help gain visibility, increase control, and better secure virtual environments. Many ... http://altornetworks.com/news-events/five-virtualization-vendors/ By Carryl Roy Podcast: Virtual Strategy Magazine talks with Amir Ben-Efriam, CEO and co-founder of Altor Networks, about their Virtual Network Security Analyzer (VNSA). Total listening time: 12:44. (link to podcast) http://altornetworks.com/news-events/monitoring-virtual-traffic-podcast/ Yes, I know it’s April, but I couldn’t get this all done in March, damnit. Per the promise in my last driveby-post featuring Montego Networks, here’s a quick bit of insight regarding Altor Networks, another start-up recently out of stealth in the virtualization security space. I spent some time with ... http://altornetworks.com/news-events/virtualization-march-madness-continues/ Get Security Up To Par With Altor’s VNSA Altor’s VNSA provides customers with an insight into virtual switch traffic and control over virtual machines. To respond to the deficiencies of traditional security in virtualized environments, Altor has introduced the industry’s first virtual switch traffic analyzer. The VNSA (Virtual Network Security ... http://altornetworks.com/news-events/close-the-security-gap/ By Michelle Savage Altor Networks celebrated St. Patrick’s Day with the launch of its Virtual Network Security Analyzer (VNSA) - he first security product built specifically for the virtual data center, with complete support of all virtualization features. According to Poornima DeBolle, Senior Director of Product Marketing at Altor Networks, securing virtual ... http://altornetworks.com/news-events/altor-launches-smn/ Altor Networks launched industry’s first virtual switch traffic analyzer and Virtual Network Firewall. Each system supports multi-vendor virtual platforms and is purpose-built to make virtualized datacenters more secure than their physical counterparts. (full article) http://altornetworks.com/news-events/altor-launches-2/ By Brian Prince Security and virtualization vendors said helping hands can make for more secure virtual environments. While the world waits for the first major hypervisor exploit, vendors are doing their best to build technological defenses for virtual environments. However, developing that technology may lie with the ability and willingness of ... http://altornetworks.com/news-events/partnerships-are-key-in-virtualization-security/ By Robert Westervelt, News Editor It is still early for security vendors to produce software using VMware’s recently released application program interfaces (APIs). But a fledgling virtualization security market is emerging to address the risks associated with the technology. The latest entrant to the security virtualization market is Redwood City, Calif.-based Altor ... http://altornetworks.com/news-events/altor-addresses-virtual-complexities/ by Mark Hall As the economy worsens, the pressure to consolidate more physical servers into virtual machines to save money will mount. But don’t let security be a virtual concept, especially when it comes to the “virtual switch” that connects your virtual machines into a virtual network. They all need real ... http://altornetworks.com/news-events/real-security-for-virtual-data-centers/ by Steve Ragan Virtualization is big business. It’s in the news, it’s in the datacenter, and it’s on the budget agenda for most IT departments. As the momentum to use VM technology grows, the need for security grows with it. With all this security came a single missing element, the ability ... http://altornetworks.com/news-events/missing-link-in-vm-security/ Breakthrough Security Solutions Making Virtual Networks More Secure Than Physical Network Infrastructures REDWOOD CITY, Calif. - Altor Networks, pioneering a new class of virtual network security solutions, today announced the launch of the industry’s first virtual switch traffic analyzer and Virtual Network Firewall™. Each system supports multi-vendor virtual platforms and is ... http://altornetworks.com/news-events/first-virtualized-firewall/ By Denise Dubie , Network World These companies aim to keep virtual servers secure by providing access control, patch management and more Few reports have surfaced of security breaches in virtual-server environments, but the potential looms large. “Every single platform we have had in IT eventually gets compromised. There is no reason ... http://altornetworks.com/news-events/virtualization-companies-to-watch/ Altor Networks secures VMware virtual machines with firewall, analyzer By Bridget Botelho In the physical world, firewalls and port commands give system administrators control of communication between servers. But in the virtual world, virtual machines (VMs) communicate through virtual switches that IT hasn’t been able to control, said Amir Ben-Efraim, the CEO ... http://altornetworks.com/news-events/altor-searchsvr-virt/ Virtualization startup company’s new security tool allows IT to see and analyze traffic between virtual machines, plugging a security hole that has long troubled virtualization experts. By Laurianne McLaughlin, CIO Magazine There’s no shortage of startup companies hawking virtualization management and security tools, but a new entrant, Altor Networks, has an interesting ... http://altornetworks.com/news-events/cio-virtual-security-hole/ Virtualization Report | David Marshall I recently had the opportunity to speak with Altor Networks CEO, Amir Ben-Efraim, so that I could find out more information about virtual networks and what Altor Networks is trying to do with them. Q: So if you would, please tell us about Altor Networks? A: Altor Networks ... http://altornetworks.com/news-events/finding-out-more-interview/ Breakthrough security solutions making virtual networks more secure than physical network infrastructures Altor Networks, pioneering a new class of virtual network security solutions, today announced the launch of the industry’s first virtual switch traffic analyzer and Virtual Network Firewall ™. Each system supports multi-vendor virtual platforms and is purpose-built to make ... http://altornetworks.com/news-events/altor-darkreadin/ Altor Networks, pioneering a new class of virtual network security solutions, today announced the launch of the industry’s first virtual switch traffic analyzer and Virtual Network Firewall.™ Each system supports multi-vendor virtual platforms and is purpose-built to make virtualized data centers more secure than their physical counterparts… (full article) http://altornetworks.com/news-events/altor-secures-tmc/ Security Solutions Making Virtual Networks More Secure Than Physical Network Infrastructures Altor Network announced the launch of the virtual switch traffic analyzer and Virtual Network Firewall. Each system supports multi-vendor virtual platforms and is purpose-built to make virtualized data centers more secure than their physical counterparts… (full article) http://altornetworks.com/news-events/altor-secures-virtualization-data-centers/ Virtualization for Everyone, March 17, 2008: We spoke to and interviewed Amir Ben-Efraim , Altor’s CEO during VMworld and he had asked us to wait till this release so here we are. We will soon be releasing the video with Ben at Virtualization.com. Altor Networks, pioneering a new class of virtual ... http://altornetworks.com/news-events/altor-launches/ Cannes, FRANCE, February 27, 2008 - VMware, Inc. (NYSE: VMW), the global leader in virtualization solutions from the desktop to the datacenter, today announced new security technology called VMware VMsafe ™, http://www.vmware.com/go/vmsafe, that protects applications running in virtual machines in ways previously not possible in physical environments. The VMsafe APIs ... http://altornetworks.com/news-events/vmware-vmsafe/