SecurityRatty: tag: catbird

Catbird launches virtual security service

2008-01-14 00:00:00 by Denise Dubie in Network World on Security

Security vendor Catbird announced the availability of its Catbird HypervisorShield service, which the company says will protect virtual machines from management errors, unauthorized access and malicious attacks on the hypervisor

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What type of security do I need in my Virtual Network?

2008-02-24 14:18:29 by John Peterson in Security In The Virtual World

...Catbird, or if you were to ask Catbird who their competitors were, they would say Blue Lane and Reflex. I know this because I use to site these companies as competitors myself while serving as the Chief Product Officer at Reflex Security As a vendor we spend so much time trying to show our value that we loose sight of the real value of...

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What type of security do I need in my Virtual Network?

2008-02-24 14:18:29 by John Peterson in Security In The Virtual World

...Catbird, or if you were to ask Catbird who their competitors were, they would say Blue Lane and Reflex. I know this because I use to site these companies as competitors myself while serving as the Chief Product Officer at Reflex Security As a vendor we spend so much time trying to show our value that we loose sight of the real value of...

Tags: security, switch, virtual switch, security switch, comprehensive security solution, comprehensive, solution, reflex, reflex security

Article: Analytics Brief: Securing The New Data Center

2008-01-07 05:28:32 by Editor in Security Links

...Catbird, with a security agent; and Reflex, with an intrusion prevention appliance. As this group indicates, virtual appliances, much as their physical-world kin do for the legacy data center, can fill many of the security gaps created by a virtualized environment Also In This Report Chipset futures: We look at the latest offerings from...

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Network World Focus on Security in 3/17/08 issue

2008-03-18 17:22:36 by John Peterson in Security In The Virtual World

...Catbird provide security between virtual machines. This isn't true. What these vendors do is provide "monitoring" between virtual machines as stated on page 48 of Network World's article on virtual security. What monitoring gives you in the case of Reflex is IDS (detection) and while useful it does not provide what many THINK it does. Many...

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Virtualization Vendors Are Not In The Security Business?

2008-05-09 15:44:33 by John Peterson in Security In The Virtual World

...Catbird , Altor Networks as well as some of the big guys that are working on helping the virtualization vendors with these security concerns I tend to agree with Simon that the virtualization vendors don't currently have the expertise to deliver appropriate security controls for virtual environments BUT should they Well, Chris Hoff who blogs...

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Is Virtual Security Technology A Prime Target For Acquisition?

2008-05-15 02:12:08 by John Peterson in Security In The Virtual World

...Catbird, Blue Lane, Altor Networks, VMSight, Embotics, etc I have an idea of who it could be but don't want to spread rumors that could be false. The other question is whether or not there is an atmosphere of acquisition frenzy brewing in the virtualization market Please comment on your thoughts - Just click the comments link bellow

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