Guardicore Centra Security Platform Verified as Citrix Ready

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Micro-segmentation Solution Enables Strong Security for Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops by Isolating Workloads and Preventing Lateral Movement

Boston, Mass. and Tel Aviv, Israel – November 12, 2019 – Guardicore, a leader in internal data center and cloud security, today announced its solution has been verified as Citrix® Ready. The Citrix Ready technology partner program offers robust testing, verification, and joint marketing for Digital Workspace, Networking, and Analytics solutions – with over 30,000 verifications listed in the Citrix Ready Marketplace. Guardicore completed a rigorous testing and verification process for its Guardicore Centra security platform to ensure compatibility with Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops, providing confidence in joint solution compatibility.

“Using Guardicore Centra’s micro-segmentation capabilities, Citrix customers can now more effectively create and enforce policies that isolate Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops securely, delivering a Zero Trust approach and preventing unauthorized access as well as lateral movement,” said Sharon Besser, Vice President of Business Development, Guardicore. “By integrating with critical technologies from Citrix and other members of our partner ecosystem we enable customers to maximize the value of existing investments while transforming security in the cloud and software-defined data center.”

“The Guardicore Centra security platform delivers a simple and intuitive way to apply micro-segmentation controls to reduce the attack surface, detect, and control breaches,” said John Panagulias, Director, Citrix Ready. “With this integration and Citrix Ready validation, we can offer customers integrated security solutions that combine Guardicore Centra with Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops to protect virtual workloads while enhancing productivity.”

Virtual desktop infrastructure deployments require effective security controls that can scale without losing visibility and control. Unlike traditional deployments where end-user machines can be physically isolated from the data center and controlled and monitored, securing virtual environments requires a different approach, especially when applying principles of Zero Trust. Micro-segmentation is central to the network virtualization paradigm. It enables better security for these environments by isolating workloads from each other, controlling and enforcing security policies that prevent lateral movement attacks. Guardicore augments Citrix Virtual Apps and Citrix Virtual Desktops with micro-segmentation, using its advanced capabilities for flows, applications and users to create secure zones that enhance the application of Zero Trust without compromising productivity or user experience.

Available now, Guardicore Centra supports Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops, and older versions of Citrix XenApp and Citrix XenDesktop. Guardicore Centra for Citrix products can be found immediately in the Citrix Ready Marketplace.

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 BASE Selects Guardicore Centra Security Platform to Protect Critical Banking Applications

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Guardicore Chosen for Superior Visibility and Segmentation Policy Management to Reduce Risks

Boston, Mass. and Tel Aviv, Israel – October 22, 2019 – Guardicore, a leader in internal data center and cloud security, today announced that Banco BASE, a Mexican financial group and a leader in financing and foreign trade industries, is deploying Guardicore’s Centra Security Platform to provide advanced data center security.

“Banco BASE has built its success by providing the most innovative financial solutions, with agile and personalized service,” said Prudencio Frigolet Gómez. Director of Technology and  Operations at Banco BASE. “A big part of our commitment to our customers is ensuring the protection of their critical data and availability of services. Guardicore Centra gives our IT team deep visibility into east-west traffic for our critical banking applications and the ability to reduce risk with micro-segmentation.”  

Banco BASE is part of the Mexican Financial Group Grupo Financiero BASE. With over 32 years of experience, Banco BASE provides products for corporate and private banking, including loans, investments, digital accounts and currency exchange. 

“We are honored Banco BASE has selected Guardicore to help protect their most critical applications,” said Pavel Gurvich, co-founder and CEO of Guardicore. “Banco BASE quickly recognized that a new, software-defined approach to segmentation is essential for reducing risk and simplifying ongoing policy management for critical applications and payment systems like SWIFT.”

Guardicore’s flagship product, the Centra Security Platform, is a comprehensive data center and cloud security solution that delivers the simplest and most intuitive way to apply micro-segmentation controls to reduce the attack surface and detect and control breaches within east-west traffic. It provides deep visibility into application dependencies and flows and enforcement of network and individual process level policies to isolate and segment critical applications and infrastructure.

About Banco BASE

For nearly three decades, Banco BASE has specialized in providing companies with financial advice solutions, to help them grow and achieve their goals, through a strong services portfolio, including Foreign Currency, Hedging Instruments, Credit, Digital Accounts and Investments. We deliver very efficient financial services due to our network of offices in Mexico’s major cities from which we cover all the country; plus, we have as well a representation office in Toronto, Canada. Furthermore, we have correspondence relationships with the world’s main banks and most Mexican banks, which ensure our transparency, reliability and transaction swiftness.

Our credentials include: Rated by Standard & Poor´s, since February 2000 and by Fitch Ratings since 2006 always increasing our ratings; Approximately 2,000 FX transactions per day and a daily trading volume of USD $450 million; Members of the Association of Certified Anti-Money Laundering Specialist (ACAMS) and founders of the Monterrey-Mexico Chapter; Placed among the 500 most important companies in Mexico, and a “Super Empresa” (one of the best places to work for) by Expansion Magazine (A Time Inc. Enterprise). Our best recommendation comes from our more than 20,000 satisfied national and international customers.

For more information, visit www.bancobase.com 

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 Now Available in the Microsoft Azure Marketplace

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Microsoft Azure customers worldwide now gain access to the Guardicore Centra security platform to take advantage of the scalability, reliability, and agility of Azure to drive application development and shape business strategies

Boston, Mass. and Tel Aviv, Israel – October 8, 2019 – Guardicore, a leader in internal data center and cloud security, today announced the availability of its Guardicore Centra security platform in the Microsoft Azure Marketplace, an online store providing applications and services for use on Azure. Guardicore customers can now take advantage of the scalability, high availability, and security of Azure, with streamlined deployment and management.

Guardicore Centra helps accelerate security migration from an on-premises data center to Azure. Additionally, it supports hybrid clouds and can protect legacy applications for those customers that prefer to keep such applications in their traditional data centers while migrating other applications to Azure. The Guardicore Centra security platform is also among the first cloud and data center micro-segmentation solutions in the market to achieve Microsoft IP Co-Sell 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 Microsoft Azure, 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 cofounder, Guardicore. “Achieving this status demonstrates our commitment to the Microsoft partner ecosystem and our ability to deliver innovative solutions that help forward-thinking enterprise customers to secure their business-critical applications and data quickly, reduce the cost and burden of compliance, and secure cloud adoption.”

Sajan Parihar, Senior Director, Microsoft Azure Platform at Microsoft Corp said, “We’re pleased to welcome Guardicore and the Guardicore Centra security platform to the Microsoft Azure Marketplace, which gives our partners great exposure to cloud customers around the globe. Azure Marketplace offers world-class quality experiences from global trusted partners with solutions tested to work seamlessly with Azure.”

The Azure Marketplace is an online market for buying and selling cloud solutions certified to run on Azure. The Azure Marketplace helps connect companies seeking innovative, cloud-based solutions with partners who have developed solutions that are ready to use.

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.

Ophir Harpaz of Guardicore Wins Rising Star Leadership Award from SC Media

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Boston, Mass. and Tel Aviv, Israel – September 23, 2019 – Guardicore, a leader in internal data center and cloud security, today announced that Ophir Harpaz, Security Researcher, Guardicore has been named a winner in the third-annual SC Media Reboot Leadership Awards, earning the distinction in the Rising Star category. A total of 50 honorees were revealed as part of a special editorial section published today at SC Magazine.

“Ophir represents the very best of what it means to be a contributing member of the information security community. Her curiosity leads her forward daily to uncover the most dangerous tools and techniques employed by today’s adversaries, and to share her findings through blog posts, workshops and talks. She is passionate about leveraging her position to elevate and educate young women and her fellow researchers and dedicates her time freely to pass on all she has already learned,” said Ofri Ziv, Vice President of Research, Guardicore and Head of Guardicore Labs. “We applaud her for her achievements and look forward to her continued success.”

The Reboot Leadership Awards are an adjunct to SC Media’s annual Reboot coverage that takes place each December when SC Media recognizes the best and brightest cybersecurity luminaries and organizations. The Reboot Leadership Awards are offered similar accolades. The winners are honored with a special section on SC Media’s website and in their December Reboot edition.

The contenders who were nominated faced a thorough judging process conducted by SC Media’s editorial team. This included a review of their professional backgrounds, references and work undertaken to benefit the wider industry, as well as any other research deemed necessary. Winners were chosen based on their outstanding service, qualifications and advancements in the cybersecurity industry.

“There were no shortage of quality nominations this year as we reviewed the various candidates for our coveted Reboot Awards,” said Teri Robinson, executive editor, SC Media. “However, after a thorough evaluation process, it was clear that Ophir truly distinguished herself through her valuable contributions and industry influence.”

Ophir is becoming one of the world’s foremost experts in cybercrime research, preventing millions of dollars of damage for some of the world’s most valuable companies. Most recently, she has led research on the Nansh0u crypto mining and Smominru botnet campaigns, as well as took part in the development of Guardicore’s publicly available Cyber Threat Intelligence threat feed. She is also an active member of Baot, a community for women in software development and research positions in the Israeli high tech industry, and dedicates copious time to education and contribute to the world. She is a true believer in the information security world being a community. As part of that approach, she runs the website begin.re, a popular resource for learning reverse engineering, and regularly shares insights from her daily life in cybersecurity via social media. In fact, Ophir was selected by Sentinel One as one of 21 Twitter profiles worth following and by Cybersecurity Ventures’ Cybercrime Magazine as one of the industry’s recommended list of women to follow on Twitter.

About SC Media

SC Media is cybersecurity. They’ve lived it for over 30 years, sharing industry expert guidance and insight, in-depth features, timely news and independent product reviews in various content forms in partnership with and for top-level information security executives and their technical teams. SC Media arms information security professionals with the in-depth, unbiased business and technical information they need to tackle the countless security challenges they face and establish risk management and compliance postures that underpin overall business strategies. They deliver breaking news, comprehensive analysis, cutting-edge features, contributions from thought leaders, and the best, most extensive collection of product reviews in the business. Whether through their comprehensive website, magazine, in-depth ebooks, newsletters, or regularly scheduled digital and live events, such as their SC Awards program and their RiskSec conference, their readers gain all the relevant information they need to safeguard their organizations and, ultimately, contribute to their longevity and success.

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’s Infection Monkey Becomes the Industry’s First Zero Trust Assessment Tool

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Open Source Infection Monkey Provides Enterprise Leaders the Ability to Examine Adherence to Zero Trust Security Posture and Prescribe Recommendations for Faster Zero Trust Adoption

Boston, Mass. and Tel Aviv, Israel – September 12, 2019 – Guardicore, a leader in internal data center and cloud security, today unveiled new capabilities for its Infection Monkey that make it the industry’s first Zero Trust assessment tool. Added features extend the functionality of the already successful Infection Monkey, a free, open source breach and attack simulation tool used by thousands to demonstrate and analyze their environments against lateral movement and attacks.  The latest version of Infection Monkey enables both enterprise security leaders and network engineers to determine how their environments perform against a Zero Trust security posture on their path to overall Zero Trust adoption. Infection Monkey now provides security and network infrastructure teams the ability to easily and accurately examine an enterprise’s adherence to key components of the Zero Trust framework as established by Forrester with detailed explanations of security gaps and prescriptive instructions on how to rectify them. Guardicore will preview the Zero Trust capabilities of Infection Monkey with attendees of the Forrester Security & Risk Forum in National Harbor, MD this week.

“A concept first developed by Forrester Research nearly a decade ago, the Zero Trust approach to information security is gaining momentum and driving strategic technical alignment and implementations toward a process focused on building security from the inside out,” said Pavel Gurvich, Co-founder and CEO, Guardicore. “Yet many organizations are still unsure of how to move from theory to deployment and apply the principles of Zero Trust in their environment. Infection Monkey is the first tool of its kind that allows organizations to safely and easily test their environment’s Zero Trust posture and generate specific recommendations to accelerate and enhance Zero Trust adoption and ensure continued adherence. ” 

Infection Monkey with Zero Trust Assessment

Infection Monkey enables cybersecurity and infrastructure architects to operationalize Zero Trust by accurately examining an enterprise’s adherence to the pillars of Zero Trust, including detailed explanations of where the enterprise falls short, and instructions on how to address these shortcomings. Easy to deploy and run, Infection Monkey tests implementation of the Zero Trust framework by attempting to communicate with machines residing in different segments of the enterprise network, demonstrating policy violations, and generating test results with actionable recommendations for remediation.With prescriptive reporting that can be easily implemented without any additional staff or education, Infection Monkey offers security leaders the ability to illustrate enterprise Zero Trust posture against the Forrester framework with an easy to understand red, yellow, green color scheme. Like previous versions of Infection Monkey, the latest version runs on bare metal, VMWare, other hypervisors, AWS, Azure, Google, and private clouds.

Availability & Contributions

Developed by Guardicore Labs Infection Monkey is an open source breach and attack simulation tool for securely and automatically testing the resiliency of private and public cloud environments. Guardicore Infection Monkey source code is currently available from the GitHub repository. Added capabilities for Zero Trust assessment and deployments for the AWS Marketplace, Microsoft Azure Marketplace and Google Cloud Platform Marketplace will be available for download at the end of the quarter. Infection Monkey is available for Linux, Windows, AWS, Azure, Google Cloud Platform, VMWare and Docker environments. For questions, suggestions and guidance join the Infection Monkey community.

Infection Monkey is open source, developed on GitHub under the GPLv3 license. 

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 Nansh0u advanced crypto-mining attack,  the Hexmen multiple attack campaigns targeting database services, the Bondnet botnet used to mine different cryptocurrencies, and a privilege escalation vulnerability in VMWare. Guardicore Labs also hosts Cyber Threat Intelligence (CTI), a freely available threat intelligence portal to assist security teams in identifying and investigating malicious IP addresses and domains in data centers. 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.

Guardicore Partners with Mellanox to Deliver Agentless and High-Performance Micro-Segmentation in Data Centers

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Combination of Guardicore Centra Security Platform with Mellanox’s BlueField SmartNICs Enables Organizations to Combine the Benefits of Hardware Acceleration, Micro-segmentation and Advanced Networking at Wire Speed

Boston, Mass. and Tel Aviv, Israel – September 5, 2019 – Guardicore, a leader in internal data center and cloud security, today announced that it has partnered with Mellanox Technologies, Ltd. (NASDAQ: MLNX), a leading supplier of high-performance, end-to-end smart interconnect solutions for data center servers and storage systems, to deliver the first agentless and high-performance, low latency micro-segmentation solution for high speed 10G-100G networks. The solution leverages both the Guardicore Centra security platform and Mellanox BlueField SmartNIC solutions to provide customers with hardware-embedded micro-segmentation security. This integration allows customers using BlueField SmartNICs to support micro-segmentation requirements for high speed networks or when other agent-based solutions cannot be used. The new solution is fully integrated and managed centrally by Guardicore Centra.

“The exponential growth of the global datasphere is fueling demand for data centers that can keep pace with the speed, scale and security necessary to support digitally driven business,” said Pavel Gurvich, CEO and Co-founder, Guardicore. “We have long been committed to applying micro-segmentation techniques to help enterprise security teams cost-effectively reduce risk and limit the attack surface inside the data center without impacting performance. Partnering with Mellanox to offer an integrated solution is a natural extension of the many use cases we already support and allows us to address another set of specific customer requirements to protect data in high-speed, complex environments.”

“The first agentless and high-performance micro-segmentation solution in the IT security industry, the combination of Guardicore Centra and BlueField enables ease of deployment and operations in both new and existing environments,” said Ariel Levanon, VP Cyber Security, Mellanox Technologies. “The combined Guardicore and Mellanox solution enables enhanced visibility and policy enforcement without installing agents on compute nodes. Agents are integrated into the BlueField SmartNIC in a manner fully isolated from the application workload, while also complying with strict regulations and embracing DevOps automation. As a high-speed SmartNIC, BlueField delivers unmatched performance that enforces micro-segmentation policies in 100Gb/s networks at full wire speed.”

Unleash The Full Potential of Micro-segmentation

The joint Guardicore-Mellanox solution addresses the challenges faced by enterprises seeking to gain visibility and to protect application workloads in high-speed networks where it is not possible or practical to deploy and operate agents across their infrastructures, such as in cases of high-frequency trading, multi-tenant hosting with cloud providers, or management of third-party appliances. The solution runs on the Mellanox BlueField SmartNIC, considered a computer on its own, and not on the enterprise infrastructure. It uses hardware offload to support high-speed and low-latency requirements. Deploying Guardicore technology on BlueField provides protection without compromising either the host or the compliance regulations in any way. Additionally, running the Guardicore solution integrated on BlueField delivers unmatched enforcement performance – allowing or blocking traffic at wire speed and without any impact to server performance. The solution gives enterprises the freedom to deploy Guardicore on every workload in any environment and at any scale, including private, public and hybrid cloud instances, while supporting the following deployment options:

  • Agentless with BlueField SmartNIC – fully isolated from the host
  • Hybrid – agent running on the compute node while taking advantage of the BlueField SmartNIC for hardware acceleration
  • Native – the agent runs directly on the compute node on the host operating system or in a guest VM/container, which is the traditional type of deployment for microservices.

The best choice of deployment options varies based on the environment and type of workloads, etc., for every enterprise. BlueField is perfectly positioned for bare-metal and Kubernetes deployments; running agents on the SmartNIC removes the need to deploy and maintain agents in these environments, enabling enterprise DevOps automation. BlueField also enhances the out-of-box experience for enterprises as they roll out microservices across their infrastructures, delivering improved agility, resiliency and business continuity.

Resources

Please join our Guardicore and Mellanox experts on September 10 at 9:00 a.m. ET for a webinar to learn how Mellanox BlueField SmartNICs unleash the full potential of micro-segmentation. Topics addressed will include agentless micro-segmentation, security enforcement in hardware at full wire-speed, and full isolation. Register here to attend this session.

Availability

The joint Guardicore-Mellanox solution is available immediately from both vendors’ network of value-added resellers.

About Mellanox

Mellanox Technologies (NASDAQ: MLNX) is a leading supplier of end-to-end Ethernet and InfiniBand smart interconnect solutions and services for servers and storage. Mellanox interconnect solutions increase data center efficiency by providing the highest throughput and lowest latency, delivering data faster to applications, unlocking system performance and improving data security. Mellanox offers a choice of fast interconnect products: adapters, switches, software and silicon that accelerate application performance and maximize business results for a wide range of markets including cloud and hyperscale, high performance computing, artificial intelligence, enterprise data centers, cyber security, storage, financial services and more.

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 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.