Montego Networks, which officially launched two weeks ago, has made an announcement at the RSA Conference 2008 about its HyperVSecurity Alliance, an initiative allowing third-party vendors to integrate their products with Montego’s HyperVSecurity technology platform.
The Montego HyperVSecurity vendor-agnostic framework facilitates an interoperable virtual security architecture enabling VM-to-VM visibility, inspection and security, and delivers valuable solutions with minimal network configuration, reliability and performance headaches. For virtualization customers, the HyperVSecurity Alliance provides a flexible, integrated toolkit they can confidently deploy to address needs for virtual security, application performance and investment protection. Through its Alliance, Montego Networks is well positioned to build productive partnerships with vendors of best-of-breed IDS/IPS, patch management, behavioral analysis, anti-malware, network monitoring, and other applications.
The HyperVSecurity Alliance lets its partners rapidly leverage advantages of the Montego platform including fast access to virtual market applications, co-branded lead-generation channel presence & sales. Concurrently, it gives virtualization channel partners a ready-made portfolio of certified products, customer-ready solutions and cross-sell revenue opportunities.
The Charter Members of the HyperVSecurity Alliance include these networking and security solutions providers:
- Cyberoam: Unified Threat Management Plus (UTM+)
- Lancope: StealthWatch™ for NetFlow and sFlow-based Anomaly Detection and Network Performance Monitoring
- Plixer International: Scrutinizer™ NetFlow Analyzer
- StillSecure: Commercial and open source secure network infrastructure solutions including NAC, IDS/IPS, vulnerability management and a unified networking/security platform
The Montego HyperSwitch approaches virtualized network security from a new direction that integrates network policy enforcement and access control with a high-availability virtual security switch. This unique approach allows the Montego HyperSwitch to efficiently deliver advanced capabilities including policy-based virtual network partitioning, L2-L4 Firewall, Identity Firewall, Content Firewall, Virtual Network Discovery, Secure Inter-VM communication, 802.1Q VLANs, 802.1D Spanning Tree, Load-balanced Quality of Service (QoS), Policy-Based Switching, Policy-Based Traffic Mirroring, NetFlow, and more. The HyperSwitch also includes Montego Firewall Control Protocol (MFCP) which enables 3rd party security vendors to leverage API calls that allow for remote configuration of its security policies.