Guardicore Selected as Finalist in Black Unicorn Awards for 2019

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Guardicore Named One of the Top 30 Finalists for Cybersecurity Companies

Boston, Mass. and Tel Aviv, Israel – July 22, 2019 – Guardicore, a leader in internal data center and cloud security, today announced that is has been named a finalist in the Black Unicorn Awards for 2019, sponsored by Cyber Defense Magazine. Founded in Tel Aviv in 2013 Guardicore is a global company with more than 150 employees, a worldwide network of more than 50 partners and $110 million in venture funding from Battery Ventures, 83North, TPG, Qumra Capital and Deutsche Telecom Capital Partners and Partech.

Guardicore recognizes that traditional perimeter defenses are ineffective at reducing the attack surface, maintaining compliance or deploying granular policies quickly and at scale, in today’s dynamic, heterogeneous hybrid environments. Guardicore protects modern enterprise networks by constantly engaging with customers to understand their challenges in hybrid data centers and providing micro-segmentation to define security policies.

As one of thirty finalists, Guardicore is competing against many of the industry’s leading providers of cybersecurity products and services for this prestigious award. The term “Black Unicorn” signifies a cybersecurity company that has the potential to reach a $1 billion dollar market value as determined by private or public investment (Source) and these awards showcase those companies with this kind of incredible potential in the cybersecurity marketplace. Ten winners will be announced on August 7, 2019 by Cyber Defense Magazine.

“It’s exciting to see Guardicore making it into the finalist round among other cybersecurity industry leaders in our first annual Black Unicorn awards,” said Judges Robert Herjavec of Herjavec Group, David DeWalt of Night Dragon and Gary Miliefsky of Cyber Defense Media Group. Learn more about the judges at: Black Unicorn Awards 2019.

“We are honored to be recognized as a finalist for this prestigious award as Guardicore continues to expand research areas to identify and prevent threats before they impact the enterprise organizations that put their trust in our hands,” said Pavel Gurvich, CEO and co-founder of Guardicore. “We will continue to provide a simple and flexible solution to meet the current and future needs of the modern enterprise,” added Gurvich.

About Guardicore

Guardicore is a data center and cloud security company that protects your organization’s core assets using flexible, quickly deployed, and easy to understand micro-segmentation controls. Our solutions provide a simpler, faster way to guarantee persistent and consistent security — for any application, in any IT environment. For more information, visit www.guardicore.com.

Guardicore Achieves AWS Security Competency Status for Micro-Segmentation and Zero Trust

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Guardicore Centra Security Platform Provides Segmentation for Applications, Flows and Processes, Providing Granular Policy Controls to Establish Zero Trust Micro-perimeters

Boston, Mass. and Tel Aviv, Israel – June 28, 2019 – Guardicore, a leader in internal data center and cloud security, today announced that its Centra Security platform is one of the first cloud and data center micro-segmentation solutions in the market to achieve Amazon Web Service (AWS) Security Competency status. This designation recognizes that Guardicore has demonstrated proven technology and deep expertise that helps customers achieve their cloud security goals.

“By implementing Guardicore Centra combined with the range of powerful tools from AWS, our customers are able to gain the highest level of visibility and implement micro-segmentation for enhanced security. And they can do it faster and more effectively than traditional firewall technology with our simple-to-deploy overlay that can go to the cloud, stay on-premise, or do both at the same time,” said Pavel Gurvich, CEO and Co-founder, Guardicore. “Achieving AWS Security Competency status demonstrates our ability to deliver innovative solutions that help our forward-thinking enterprise customers quickly secure their business-critical applications and data, reduce the cost and burden of compliance and secure cloud adoption.”

Moving applications and workloads to the cloud, or between clouds, is now a common attribute of the modern IT environment. However, the current security controls of such environments are still not adequate, and cloud migration presents multiple challenges for IT teams, including the loss of visibility and control over their assets.

Isolation is the solid foundation for cloud workload protection and compliance. Segmentation of network applications and their components can ensure isolation and reduce the attack surface. Guardicore Centra enables deep application dependency mapping and policy enforcement, ensuring an ongoing management process for the creation and maintenance of micro-segmentation policies. Guardicore Centra delivers a complete and flexible solution for micro-segmentation.

Achieving the AWS Security Competency differentiates Guardicore as an AWS Partner Network (APN) member that provides specialized software designed to help enterprises adopt, develop and deploy complex security projects on AWS. To receive the designation, APN Partners must possess deep AWS expertise and deliver solutions seamlessly on AWS.

AWS is enabling scalable, flexible, and cost-effective solutions from startups to global enterprises. To support the seamless integration and deployment of these solutions, AWS established the AWS Competency Program to help customers identify Consulting and Technology APN Partners with deep industry experience and expertise.

About Guardicore

Guardicore is a data center and cloud security company that protects your organization’s core assets using flexible, quickly deployed, and easy to understand micro-segmentation controls. Our solutions provide a simpler, faster way to guarantee persistent and consistent security — for any application, in any IT environment. For more information, visit www.guardicore.com.

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Guardicore Raises $60 Million; Continues to Build Momentum in Cloud and Data Center Security

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Led by New Investor Qumra, Funding Fuels Company Growth and Continued Disruption in Firewall and Data Center Markets

Boston, Mass. and Tel Aviv, Israel – May 21, 2019 – Guardicore, a leader in internal data center and cloud security, today announced it has raised $60 million in Series C funding, bringing the company’s total funding to $110 million. This more than doubles the total capital raised to date and represents an endorsement of Guardicore’s current momentum as the company continues to disrupt the broader firewall and data center markets.

“Any organization has critical IT assets that need to be secured. Our distributed, software-defined segmentation solution is the simplest way to secure these assets whether they reside in the cloud or on premises. The days of being chained to legacy firewalls are over,” said Pavel Gurvich, CEO and co-founder of Guardicore.  

New investor Qumra Capital led the round and was joined by other new investors DTCP, Partech, and ClalTech, Access Industries’ vehicle for Israeli technology investments. Existing investors Battery Ventures, 83North, TPG Growth, and Greenfield Partners also participated in the round. Guardicore will leverage the funds to fuel continued growth and accelerate investments in sales, marketing and customer service as it seeks to expand delivery of its Guardicore Centra security platform to enterprise organizations seeking to protect dynamic data center and cloud infrastructure environments. Ram Metser, Executive Chairman of Segterra, Inc., an innovative digital health analytics company, and former CEO of Guardium, Inc., a dominant database security company acquired by IBM, also joined the Guardicore board of directors.

Continued Gurvich, “Since our last round of funding, we have successfully been able to articulate our vision and demonstrate that the market is ripe for disruption. With consistent revenue growth the past three years and large-scale deployments with numerous Fortune 500 customers, we have proven that our product is more intuitive, flexible, and makes security easier to apply than traditional firewall technology currently being used to protect internal and cloud infrastructure. We are displacing incumbent players and newcomers alike as we strive to help our enterprise customers quickly secure their business-critical applications and data, reduce the cost and burden of compliance and secure cloud adoption.”

“Deutsche Bank is committed to the highest standards of security and a high priority for us is implementing tight network segmentation in our on-premise and cloud environments. Guardicore gives us an effective way to protect our critical assets through segmentation,” said Alan Meirzon, Director, Chief Information Security Office at Deutsche Bank, a Guardicore customer.

“Guardicore is changing the way enterprises approach data center security with modern segmentation capabilities that overcome the inherent inefficiencies of traditional techniques and results in stronger security for enterprise environments,” said Boaz Dinte, founding partner of Qumra Capital, investing in exceptional late-stage companies. “Guardicore is disrupting the market and is well positioned to capitalize on the broader opportunities this presents. We were compelled to invest as the lead in this round because we believe Guardicore will play a critical role in shaping the future of enterprise security, helping organizations better protect vital systems and data as we evolve our digital information society.”

“Guardicore is led by an exceptionally strong team with deep tech know-how and has demonstrated consistent growth and momentum since inception. With wide-spread adoption of distributed and hybrid infrastructures, we need a new paradigm for enterprise security outside of classic perimeters,” said Irit Kahan, Managing Director at DTCP, a global investment platform with c. $1.7 billion assets under management from Deutsche Telekom and other institutional investors. “The company’s unique market positioning and attractive roster of customers across the US and Europe, including some of the largest Fortune 500 names, have validated the value and scale of Guardicore’s approach and strong capabilities.”

Guardicore protects data centers of large and mid-sized enterprises across North America, South America, and EMEA in financial, healthcare and retail industries, including global, blue-chip brands.

About Guardicore

Guardicore is a data center and cloud security company that protects your organization’s core assets using flexible, quickly deployed, and easy to understand micro-segmentation controls. Our solutions provide a simpler, faster way to guarantee persistent and consistent security — for any application, in any IT environment. For more information, visit www.guardicore.com.

Guardicore Awarded 5 Stars In CRN’s 2019 Partner Program Guide

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Annual Guide Recognizes the IT Channel’s Top Partner Programs; Guardicore Senior Director of Channels Named to 2019 list of CRN Channel Chiefs

Boston, Mass. and Tel Aviv, Israel – April 02, 2019 – Guardicore, a leader in internal data center and cloud security, today announced CRN®, a brand of The Channel Company, has recognized The Guardicore Partner Program with a 5 Star rating in the 2019 Partner Program Guide. Additionally, Guardicore applauds Senior Director of Channels Todd Bice for being named once again to the annual list of CRN Channel Chiefs.

CRN’s annual guide identifies the strongest and most successful partner programs in the channel today, offered by the top technology suppliers for IT products and services.  The 5 Star rating recognizes an elite subset of companies that offer solution providers the best partnering elements in their channel programs.  To determine the 2019 5 Star ratings, The Channel Company’s research team assessed each Supplier’s partner program based on investments in program offerings, partner profitability, partner training, education and support, marketing programs and resources, sales support, and communication.

“We are delighted to once again be awarded this 5 Star rating from CRN. Our partners recognize that the Guardicore channel program is designed to drive success by aligning the award-winning capabilities of our Guardicore Centra Security Platform to partners’ unique business models, helping to establish breakthrough go-to-market service offerings and driving new revenue streams,” said Todd Bice, Senior Director of Channels, and a 2019 CRN Channel Chief.

Continued Bice, “Guardicore partners value the best-in-class visibility, software-defined segmentation, and real-time breach detection and response capabilities of our platform, which help to ensure protection of their clients’ most critical assets as they face a growing attack surface and increasing complexities involved in defending hybrid environments. Today’s honor, combined with continued traction in the Managed Security Services market and a 100 percent increase in new partner engagements since last year, demonstrates how much we value our partners and how our commitment to the channel has translated to success for their clients and businesses.”

As a CRN Channel Chief Bice demonstrated exceptional leadership, vision and commitment to Guardicore’s channel partner programs. Channel Chief honorees are selected by CRN’s editorial staff as a result of their professional achievements, standing in the industry, dedication to the channel partner community, and strategies for driving future growth and innovation.

Exclusive Networks recently joined the Guardicore Partner Program as its first value added distributor in North America. Laurent Daudré-Vignier, Exclusive Networks Executive Vice-President North America shares, “Partnering with Guardicore has enabled us to easily expand delivery of cloud security services to our clients. Through its innovative channel program Guardicore enables us to address potential blind spots for our customers, helping to protect critical data center assets in dynamic environments with software-defined micro-segmentation and distributed breach detection and automated attack mitigation.”

Guardicore Partner Program

The award-winning Guardicore Partner Program offers differentiated go-to-market service offerings and revenue opportunities for our growing ecosystem of partners. It is designed to drive value for partners by helping them gain a competitive advantage in the security marketplace. Guardicore partners can leverage the Guardicore Centra Security Platform to deliver project-based service engagements, embed it into an operational services model or simply resell to address a specific use case.  The Guardicore Partner Program was created to meet the unique needs of different partner types including resellers, service providers, managed security services and technology partners.

About Guardicore

Guardicore is a data center and cloud security company that protects your organization’s core assets using flexible, quickly deployed, and easy to understand micro-segmentation controls. Our solutions provide a simpler, faster way to guarantee persistent and consistent security — for any application, in any IT environment. For more information, visit www.guardicore.com.

Guardicore Threat Intelligence Helps Cybersecurity Community Research Attacks and Mitigate Risks

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Guardicore Labs Launches Freely Available Public Resource For Investigating Malicious IP Addresses and Domains

 

Boston, Mass. and Tel Aviv, Israel – March 25, 2019 – Guardicore, a leader in internal data center and cloud security, today announced the launch of its Guardicore Threat Intelligence community resource. Developed by the Guardicore Labs research team, Guardicore Threat Intelligence is a freely available public resource for identifying and investigating malicious IP addresses and domains. With an easy to understand dashboard, Guardicore Threat Intelligence rates top attackers, top attacked ports and top malicious domains, giving security teams the insight they need to research and understand attacks and mitigate risks.

“Based on our deployment and technology Guardicore has a unique view of the most recent threats that are targeting servers in the cloud and in data centers. As a company we believe in giving back to the community and contributing where we can to the benefit of all. Thus, the Guardicore Labs research team has made its data and research available for the public,” said Pavel Gurvich, Co-founder and CEO, Guardicore. “With the launch of Guardicore Threat Intelligence, the cyber security community now has the opportunity to benefit from the same insights leveraged by Guardicore to protect its customers. Busy security teams can now benefit from a trusted, freely available resource that allows them to keep track of potential threats and enjoy unique analysis specific to data center attacks.”

 

Guardicore Threat Intelligence Features
Guardicore Threat Intelligence is currently the only publicly available community resource to focus exclusively on data center attacks. Specifically, it includes data not available in other public feeds, including the role of IP addresses in specific attacks and detailed attack flow, providing context for attacks on Internet-facing servers with a single aggregated view. Security analysts, threat hunters, and incident response or forensics teams can leverage Guardicore Threat Intelligence as an aggregated source to verify threats, understand attack patterns, and update IoCs quickly, eliminating the need to check multiple feeds and accelerating the time to response. Ultimately, Guardicore Threat Intelligence can help defenders anticipate future attacks and mitigate risks. Guardicore sources data from its Guardicore Global Sensors Network (GGSN), which streams early threat information to Guardicore Labs’ team for new attack identification and analysis.

 

Availability & Contributions

Guardicore Threat Intelligence is freely available now at https://threatintelligence.guardicore.com. Contributions are welcome. Guardicore Labs invites the cybersecurity community to contribute to its Threat Intelligence knowledge base by submitting data, asking questions and collaborating with Guardicore researchers on additional findings.

 

Guardicore Labs

Guardicore Labs is a global research team, consisting of hackers, cybersecurity researchers and industry experts. Its mission is to deliver cutting-edge cyber security research, lead and participate in academic research and provide analysis, insights and response methodologies to the latest cyber threats. Guardicore Labs helps Guardicore customers and the security community to continually enhance their security posture and protect critical business applications and infrastructure.

 

Creators of Infection Monkey, a popular open-source network resiliency test tool, Guardicore Labs’ high-profile threat discoveries include the Hexmen multiple attack campaigns targeting database services, the Bondnet botnet used to mine different cryptocurrencies, Operation Prowli, a traffic manipulation and cryptocurrency mining campaign, and Butter, a brute force SSH attack on Linux machines that leaves a backdoor to deliver a Samba payload. To learn more visit Guardicore Labs.


About Guardicore

Guardicore is a data center and cloud security company that protects your organization’s core assets using flexible, quickly deployed, and easy to understand micro-segmentation controls. Our solutions provide a simpler, faster way to guarantee persistent and consistent security — for any application, in any IT environment. For more information, visit www.guardicore.com.

Banco Del Bajio, S.A., Selects Guardicore Centra Security Platform to Protect Data Center

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Guardicore Chosen for Bank’s Data Center Security for Superior Micro-segmentation and Visibility Capabilities

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Arbala Systems Joins GuardiCore Partner Program

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Leverages GuardiCore Centra Security Platform to Drive New Service Opportunities

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Former IBM Executive Joins GuardiCore as Vice President of Corporate Strategy

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Security Leader Ola Sergatchov to Drive and Execute Growth Trajectory on a Global Scale

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GuardiCore Named a 2018 Cool Vendor in Security for Midsize Enterprises by Gartner

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GuardiCore Recognized for its Centra Platform and for being Innovative, Impactful and Intriguing

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GuardiCore Named Info Security Product Guide’s Gold Innovative Company of the Year in 14th Annual 2018 Global Excellence Awards

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Also Wins Bronze in Cloud Security and Deception; Honored at Info Security Products Guide Awards Gala at RSA Conference 2018

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