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vArmour Debuts in EMEA with Solution to Visualise and Protect Against Massive Data Centre Threats and Cyber Attacks
October 2014 by Marc Jacob
Recently surfaced from stealth mode with the world’s first post-cloud, post-virtualisation data centre security solution, vArmour is today formally launching in the EMEA market and will demo its solution at the upcoming IP EXPO event in London on 8th-9th October. With a dedicated focus on protecting global enterprises’ most valuable asset – their data – vArmour brings a unique approach to data centre security. Through an exclusive distribution partnership with Big Technology, a division of Exclusive Networks Group, vArmour offers the UK and pan-EMEA market the only solution that visualises the enterprises’ entire set of data, no matter where it comes from or how it changes.
In a recent Gartner report, ‘Big Data Needs a Data-Centric Security Focus’, the research company identifies a glaring security issue: “Big data initiatives require data to move between structured and unstructured data silos, exposing incoherent data security policies that CISOs must address to avoid security chaos. CISOs must address big data initiatives that will expose uncoordinated data security policies, operations and management responsibilities of security, and database and identity management teams.” [1]
vArmour’s solution is engineered from the ground up for big data and the cloud to protect against this security chaos. Existing security solutions and legacy technologies fail to effectively combat cyber criminals because they focus on protecting traditional location-based perimeters which increases the risk of attacks on low profile assets. 83% of traffic now flows ‘east/west’ within the data centre and is never seen by the traditional perimeter, allowing attackers to move undetected and laterally across the data centre to critical enterprise assets.
By defending this ‘Data Defined Perimeter’, vArmour’s solution is unique as it allows customers to understand an attack’s progression across the data centre. It can identify both the extent of the compromise as well as the ‘Patient Zero’ – the attacker’s point of origin into the network. The solution provides distributed sensors and enforcement points in a single logical system that scales horizontally, delivering superior security with simple operations.
“Security and virtualisation are rapidly converging and the digital war in this battleground will not be won by the enterprise if security solutions are not built with this in mind,” said Tim Eades, vArmour CEO. “We bring a different approach to data centre security, with our existing customers are seeing value in our solution in as little as 30 seconds after deployment. We see huge opportunities in EMEA for us to deliver similar results and gain accelerated market traction.”
vArmour’s data centre security solution, deployed into enterprises and service partners since early 2014, delivers a converged set of forensic and enforcement capabilities including:
· Security Visibility – Complete visibility into every application, asset, packet and connection in the data centre.
· Threat Analytics – Complex threat analytics as delivered through real-time detection and visualisation of laterally moving threats.
· Attack Remediation – Business-process-aware remediation policies to contain compromised hosts and prevent exfiltration.
· Policy Control and Enforcement – Micro-segmentation and policy enforcement to isolate and control communications between applications, workgroups and tenants.
vArmour takes a software-first approach to enterprise security as cyber criminals become ever more agile and intelligent. The ubiquity of the cloud combined with increasing automation and virtualisation means that enterprises’ applications, databases and storage systems can be hosted anywhere, making traditional perimeter-based security protocols obsolete.
[1] Big Data Needs a Data-Centric Security Focus, Analyst(s): Brian Lowans, Earl Perkins, 26 March 2014
