Catherine Edwards

Redwood City, CA-August 26, 2009-Altor Networks, provider of best-in-class virtualization and cloud security solutions, and the Nielsen Company, the world's leading supplier of marketing, media and TV ratings information, will be teaming up to deliver a compelling session on virtualization security best practices. The hour-long session(TA-2405) will take place on Wednesday September 2nd at 2:30 pm. In order to deliver the metrics on which the media industry depends, the Nielsen Company must operate large data centers capable of analyzing enormous volumes of information. The company's challenges are shared by any organization that deals in the consolidation and processing of information and applications. Like similar firms in the media, financial services, manufacturing and healthcare sectors, Nielsen has turned to virtualization in order to take advantage of effic... (more)

Third Party Integrations Should Be An Integral Part of Product Plans

Security requirements of enterprises are varied, and contrary to the one-stop-shop movement, enterprises still buy security products from multiple vendors. While some enterprises do it as a part of an IT plan, most companies end-up with disparate products due to niche needs, acquisitions, etc. In this environment of multiple security products, the customer is typically left holding the ‘integrator bag’. Most security products do not interoperate or integrate with others in the infrastructure, leading to operational nightmares, and may undermine the very problem they are trying to... (more)

Altor Networks Customer, CHS, to Speak at SANS Virtualization Summit

Altor Networks has announced that the Director of Security at CHS will share his experience at the SANS Institute “WhatWorks in Virtualization Security” summit to be held at the Fairmont Hotel in Washington D.C. on August 17 and 18. CHS is deploying the Altor VF virtual firewall in a mission-critical production environment to ensure compliance. CHS has developed an extensive, sophisticated IT structure with 130 servers to manage database intensive applications which support outsourced worksite health programs, national medical exams and medical readiness teams. Virtualization is... (more)

Winsert Installed Altor VF to Monitor Virtual Machines

Altor Networks has announced that Winsert has selected the Altor VF virtual firewall to secure its virtual environment and mitigate an attack before it could hit their network. After installing Altor VF, Winsert was able to quickly secure its virtual machines (VMs); and for the first time had real time visibility and rule-based control of packet flow in and out of each VM. Winsert, the leading developer and tester of alloy solutions, was using physical servers to support all of their IT applications including Exchange, DNS, file backup, SQL database and an ERP system The company m... (more)

How Does VMsafe Work?

VMsafe is a set of security-oriented APIs created by VMware and introduced with the launch of vSphere 4. These APIs are not available in older versions of VMware. VMsafe enables 3rd-party ISVs to develop products that closely integrate with vSphere to deliver new capabilities for securing the virtual environment. (Watch: "What VMware Says About Security" [Flash] » ) The three main areas covered by VMsafe are Memory, Disk and Network. In general, these APIs enable a security product to inspect and control certain aspects of VM access to memory, disk and the network from “outside” t... (more)