Company Overview

Adoption of virtualization technologies in data centers has been accelerating for several years. Along the way, several things became apparent:

  • The virtual environment has some unique security characteristics and needs
  • Those needs were not being addressed effectively by IT security vendors
  • Traditional security technologies are ill-equipped to protect virtualized IT resources

Traffic across the virtual network, between virtual machines (VMs), doesn’t touch the physical network. Traditional network management and security devices are therefore unable to monitor inter-VM packet flow, creating a network “blind spot”. Legacy security technologies also can’t enforce restrictions on virtual network traffic while supporting critical virtualization features such as VMotion.

Recognizing these growing vulnerabilities, several industry veterans with deep expertise in network security founded Altor Networks in 2007. Their exclusive focus is on providing innovative, purpose-built solutions for mitigating virtualization risks. The Altor team has over 100 years of combined experience developing firewall and other network security technologies at Check Point and Cisco, and they have financial backing from two premium venture funds, Accel Partners and Foundation Capital. As such, Altor Networks is ideally equipped to meet the challenges of securing virtual environments.

Altor is giving customers unprecedented visibility into and granular control over virtual network traffic. Purpose-built for virtual environments, its Altor VF virtual firewall is dramatically improving the security of virtual servers in data centers while reducing administrative overhead. The award winning technology has been architected to support multiple virtualization platforms from vendors such as VMware, Microsoft, and Citrix. Multi-platform support will allow enterprises to use whatever virtualization products they need, now and in the future.

Altor Networks’ pioneering innovations include:

  • Enforcing a rule-based security policy on a single VM or group of VMs
  • Securing VMs during VMotion events, without dropping connections
  • Enabling low cost intrusion detection in the virtual network by mirroring selected traffic to external devices
  • Enforcing a default policy automatically on newly created or “rogue” VMs

Altor Networks is the leading choice for virtualization security, today and into the future. For more information about the company or virtual firewalls in general, visit altornetworks.com, or email info@altornetworks.com to arrange a product demonstration.