Catherine Edwards

Altor Networks announced today that Info Security Products Guide, the industry's leading publication on security-related products and technologies has named the Altor VF virtual firewall winner of the 2009 Tomorrow's Technology Today Award. This prestigious award recognizes security vendors with advanced, ground-breaking technologies and solutions that are helping set the bar higher for others in all areas of information security. The Altor VF was selected based on technologies that are making the most positive impact on security in today's highly sophisticated and blended attacks environment. The first security solution of its kind and purpose-built for the virtualized environment, the Altor VF monitors and controls inter-VM traffic and enforces security policies at the individual VM level. Designed from scratch to secure the latest virtualization technologies, the... (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 Selected to Present at Next Gen Data Center Conference 2009

Redwood City, CA-August 4, 2009-Altor Networks, provider of best-in-class virtualization and cloud security solutions, today announced that Todd Ignasiak, Director of Product Management, will present "Revolutionizing Security with the Virtual Data Center" at the Next Gen Data Center (NGDC) conference on August 13th in San Francisco, California. The transition to the virtualized data center has the potential to reset the IT security playing field. Next generation security technologies will allow organizations to move beyond the traditional security silos and build security into t... (more)

The Nielsen Company and Altor Networks Team Up On Virtualization Security Discussion at VMWorld

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 com... (more)

CHS Eliminates Blind Spots, Protects Virtual Infrastructure with Altor Networks

Redwood City, Calif-July 20, 2009-Altor Networks, provider of best-in-class virtualization and cloud security solutions, today announced that Comprehensive Health Services (CHS) is using the Altor VF virtual firewall in a mission-critical production environment to ensure compliance in their virtualized environment. Compliance with stringent data privacy laws governing healthcare, government and financial institutions are mandatory and specific to how information such as social security numbers and health information must be protected. "Safeguards that shield sensitive data and cr... (more)