Guardicore Recognized with 5-Star Rating in 2020 CRN® Partner Program Guide

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Cloud and Data Center Security Innovator Receives Honor Third Year in a Row

Boston, Mass. and Tel Aviv, Israel – March 30, 2020 – Guardicore, a leader in internal data center and cloud security, has received a 5-Star Rating from CRN®, a brand of The Channel Company, in its 2020 Partner Program Guide. The 5-Star rating from CRN denotes Guardicore among elite technology suppliers in the IT channel, providing maximum value and support for solution providers. Guardicore was also recently recognized by CRN as one of the 100 Coolest Cloud Companies for 2020, acknowledging the executive leadership team and the innovative Guardicore Centra Security Platform.

The Channel Company’s research team analyzed each vendor’s partner program to determine the 2020 5-Star ratings. Each was scored based on several factors, including investments in program offerings, partner profitability, partner training, education and support, marketing programs and resources, sales support, and communication. John Ryan Head of Channels for North America at Guardicore commented, “We selectively partner with top notch organizations, who share our mission to provide technical expertise, streamlining our efforts to provide the best results for our partners. The partner program has been designed to focus on what enriches our partners the most; we enable them technically, we feed them qualified opportunities and we consistently support all of their needs.”

The award-winning Guardicore Partner Program was created to meet the unique needs of different partner types, including resellers, consultants, systems integrators, and managed security service providers interested in deploying the Guardicore Centra Security Platform. The program delivers significant benefits to its partners relative to cloud services. Guardicore provides a SaaS-based (cloud) delivery model that enables a cost-effective and highly scalable deployment model. Partners leverage this model to deliver an infrastructure-agnostic approach to security that extends across legacy, bare metal, private virtualized, public cloud and containers. Additionally, partners are able to leverage Guardicore’s cloud capabilities to deliver a wide range of cloud-based managed security services and cloud-centric professional services.
Guardicore’s 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 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. Guardicore Centra’s AI-powered segmentation makes asset classification even easier and reduces the time and effort needed to apply a segmentation policy to new or existing applications.

About The Channel Company
The Channel Company enables breakthrough IT channel performance with our dominant media, engaging events, expert consulting and education and innovative marketing services and platforms. As the channel catalyst, we connect and empower technology suppliers, solution providers and end users. Backed by more than 30 years of unequalled channel experience, we draw from our deep knowledge to envision innovative new solutions for ever-evolving challenges in the technology marketplace. www.thechannelco.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 Expands International Presence

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Leader in Data Center and Cloud Security Extends Global Reach with Operations in India; Cybersecurity Industry Veteran Pratik Sharma to Lead Guardicore India

Tel Aviv, Israel – March 9, 2020 – Guardicore, a leader in internal data center and cloud security, today announced the expansion of global operations, with the establishment of Guardicore Pvt. Ltd. in Mumbai, India. Guardicore India will be headed by Regional Director Pratik Raj Sharma, a cybersecurity industry veteran and former Regional Sales Director, Check Point, West India. 

 

“With a growing global customer base which includes some of the largest companies in North America, Europe and Latin America, and a significant portion of top financial institutions around the world, including Banco Santander, we see India as a major focus market,”said Dror Salee, Co-Founder and Vice President, Asia Pacific at Guardicore. “We have evidence there is a great need for easy to use, flexible and scalable micro-segmentation solutions in data centers across India’s large and fast-growing economy. We are already engaged with some of India’s largest companies and will be hiring local pre-sales, customer success and professional services engineers to support rapid growth in the country.”

 

Establishing a market presence in India, Guardicore further expands its global footprint to address increased market demand for its comprehensive data center and cloud security solution  Guardicore Centra, delivering the simplest way to apply micro-segmentation controls that reduce attack surface and detect and control breaches within complex internal corporate networks. Guardicore will support this expanded international presence with a dedicated team based in Mumbai, addressing customer demand through a high-value global channel partner program aimed at delivering award-winning cloud security to customers throughout Asia Pacific.

 

Pratik Sharma Heads up Guardicore India Pvt. Ltd.

Based in Mumbai, Guardicore India Pvt. Ltd. Regional Director Pratik Raj Sharma will lead Guardicore India, providing strategic direction, and leading the development and expansion of new business opportunities. Pratik is a security industry veteran with more than 18 years of experience. Pratik had been with Check Point Software for over 11 years, holding positions of Security Consultant, System Engineering Director India and SAARC, and most recently Regional Sales Director for Check Point, West India. Pratik has a proven record of facilitating long term business relationships with both customers and industry luminaries.  His market and technology experience and expertise are assets that will complement and enhance Guardicore’s ability to meet the data center and cloud security needs of large companies in India’s growing economy. 


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 Earns Multiple Industry Awards at RSA Demonstrating Continued Innovation in Cloud Security

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Cyber Defense Magazine, Info Security Products Guide and CRN Award Guardicore with Top Honors

Boston, Mass. and Tel Aviv, Israel – February 24, 2020 – Guardicore, a leader in internal data center and cloud security, received multiple awards for innovation in cybersecurity from industry media at the 2020 RSA Conference. Cyber Defense Magazine named Guardicore the Market Leader in Cloud Security. The 16th Annual 2020 Info Security PG’s Global Excellence Awards also named Guardicore as the Gold award winner for the Most Innovative Security Software of the Year and the Bronze award for the Most Innovative Cloud Security. These awards follow Guardicore’s recent recognition by CRN® as one of the 100 Coolest Cloud Companies for 2020, acknowledging the executive leadership team and the innovative Guardicore Centra Security Platform, and Guardicore’s subsequent recognition by Forbes as the Best Cloud Computing Company to work for in 2020 based on an analysis of CRN and Glassdoor rankings. 

“Modern businesses want to utilize the benefits of cloud services, and understandably are concerned about how to maintain security for their IT assets in native cloud, hybrid cloud and multi-cloud environments. Our distributed, software-defined segmentation solution is the simplest way to secure these assets and makes it possible to oversee the security of all data center and cloud workloads. This recognition by Cyber Defense Magazine, Info Security Products Guide, and CRN validates our team’s dedication to keeping up with the pace of IT innovation and success with our channel partners by providing security simply wherever the enterprise  needs it,” stated Pavel Gurvich, CEO and co-founder at Guardicore.

Guardicore Centra is a comprehensive data center and cloud security solution that delivers the simplest and most intuitive way to apply micro-segmentation controls to reduce 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. Guardicore Centra’s AI-powered segmentation makes asset classification even easier and reduces the time and effort needed to apply a segmentation policy to new or existing applications.

About Cyber Defense InfoSec Awards

This is Cyber Defense Magazine’s eighth year of honoring InfoSec innovators from around the globe. Our submission requirements are for any startup, early-stage, later stage or public companies in the INFORMATION SECURITY (INFOSEC) space who believe they have a unique and compelling value proposition for their product or service.  In this program, we are particularly interested in highlighting cybersecurity companies who have a presence outside of the USA and/or a more global focus. Learn more at www.cyberdefenseawards.com

About Info Security PG’s Global Excellence Awards

The Channel Company enables breakthrough IT channel performance with our dominant media, engaging events, expert consulting and education and innovative marketing services and platforms. As the channel catalyst, we connect and empower technology suppliers, solution providers and end users. Backed by more than 30 years of unequalled channel experience, we draw from our deep knowledge to envision innovative new solutions for ever-evolving challenges in the technology marketplace. www.thechannelco.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 Expands Its Centra Security Platform to Protect Cloud Native Applications and Simplify Segmentation Policy

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Guardicore Centra Version 5 Introduces Expanded Coverage for Cloud-Native Applications and PaaS and AI-Powered Segmentation

Boston, Mass. and Tel Aviv, Israel – February 21, 2020 – Guardicore, a leader in internal data center and cloud security, today announced several new capabilities in its Guardicore Centra Security Platform designed to help security architects visualize, segment, and protect cloud-native applications while further simplifying the process for reducing risk to mission-critical business applications through segmentation. 

Building on its broad security coverage across hybrid data center environments, Guardicore protects cloud-native applications, including serverless computing and Platform as a Service (PaaS). This enables security teams to visualize and control access to cloud-native applications from the same Guardicore Centra Security Platform where they secure applications running on bare metal systems, virtual servers, Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) and containers. This provides security professionals with a single platform, giving them a single view of all applications and flows, and a single, consistent dashboard to create, update and enforce policies, dramatically simplifying security policy management in hybrid data center and cloud environments.

“Cloud-native application development is rapidly becoming the new standard for quickly building and scaling new business applications and optimizing existing ones,” said Pavel Gurvich, Co-founder and CEO, Guardicore. “Until now, providing adequate protection of PaaS services such as AWS S3, Azure SQL, and GCP Cloud Run has required standalone security tools to properly visualize access to these services and apply access control policies, resulting in inefficient security policy management across hybrid environments. Guardicore has simplified this by integrating cloud-native support into the Guardicore Centra Security Platform. This allows security to keep up with the pace of DevOps while maintaining the appropriate levels of security to protect sensitive data and applications.”

Security for Cloud-Native Applications

The Guardicore Centra Security Platform secures the production and operational elements of cloud-native applications by enabling IT security teams to visualize access to PaaS services, by  user, system or cloud service, providing a visual map of all interactions between those services, including application flows. Guardicore segmentation policies then control access to cloud resources to ensure only sanctioned users and systems are allowed, blocking any unauthorized access, and reducing the attack surface of cloud-native applications. 

Guardicore Centra uses multiple methods for data collection and policy enforcement for cloud-native applications, including cloud-native access control policies, cloud APIs, Guardicore agents, and utilizing code instrumentation mechanisms for serverless functions. This provides the ultimate flexibility in how to apply least privilege and reduce the attack surface of cloud-native services.

AI-Powered Segmentation

Whether deployed in existing on-premises data centers or in the cloud, segmenting applications often requires IT to manually classify assets and write segmentation rules to achieve the proper level of security. Guardicore already provides an intuitive, integrated workflow to minimize manual effort, but by leveraging AI, Guardicore Centra version 5 further accelerates and simplifies segmentation and ongoing policy management.  Guardicore Centra’s AI-powered segmentation makes asset classification even easier and reduces the time and effort needed to apply a segmentation policy to new or existing applications.

Based on intelligence collected from tens of thousands of applications and millions of flows from Guardicore customers, and combined with AI-based algorithms, Guardicore Centra provides asset classification and policy assistance in three main areas:

  1. Automatic prioritization recommendations for application segmentation. Guardicore Centra automatically provides recommendations on which applications to segment first, based on Guardicore’s continuous analysis of the applications that represent the greatest risk reduction opportunities.
  2. Scoping and classifying applications.  To help reduce or even eliminate manual processes for labeling assets and components of a particular application, Guardicore Centra automatically discovers, scopes and provides recommendations for how to label an application for easy and seamless classification.
  3. Automatic segmentation policy recommendations. Guardicore Centra provides segmentation rule recommendations based on known application behavior and a pre-defined set of policy templates for common applications. For example, for Splunk users, Guardicore Centra will provide a pre-defined set of rules for securing this application with minimal to no human intervention. This provides a quick and easy way to reduce the risk without having to write new rules or rewrite rules for another application. 

Guardicore will preview new features at the RSA Conference in San Francisco, CA, February 24, 2020 – February 27 in Guardicore Booth #4319.

About Guardicore Centra

Guardicore Centra is a comprehensive data center and cloud security solution that delivers the simplest 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 enforces network and process-level policies to protect critical applications, in any environment.

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 Firewall Hardens Security Policies in Modern Data Centers

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Integrated with Guardicore Centra, Smart Firewall Continually Updated with Global and Local Source Data

Boston, Mass. and Tel Aviv, Israel – February 20, 2020 – Guardicore, a leader in internal data center and cloud security, today announced the availability of its Guardicore Threat Intelligence Firewall feature, integrated into its Guardicore Centra Security Platform. The Threat Intelligence Firewall goes beyond traditional firewall measures to help harden security profiles in complex cloud environments. Managed through Guardicore Centra’s segmentation rules dashboard, it identifies and blocks incoming and outgoing connections to known malicious IPs, limiting the network attack surface and eliminating attacker activity before it reaches critical assets in the data center.

 “With our Threat Intelligence Firewall, we eliminate suspicious activity before it even reaches our customers’ data centers,” said Ofri Ziv, Guardicore Vice President of Research and head of Guardicore Labs. “Automatically configured in Guardicore Centra, our Threat Intelligence Firewall is a smart firewall that is continually updated with new data about malicious IP addresses and domains, collected by threat intelligence sensors deployed in live production data centers and cloud deployments across the globe. By identifying, flagging and/or blocking the latest attack, scan, and command and control (C&C) threats, it gives customers the ability to easily and confidently reduce risk by preventing bad actors from gaining access to the data center environment.”

With this new feature, Guardicore Centra is the only host-based segmentation platform to block traffic from malicious IP addresses identified through both its global network and local customer sources. Guardicore Threat Intelligence Firewall adds another layer of defense for security teams using the Guardicore Centra Security Platform to deploy simple and intuitive micro-segmentation controls that reduce the attack surface and detect and respond to breaches within east-west traffic. Guardicore customers benefit from:

  • Early warning about a compromised environment through instant block or alert:
    Instant notifications provide accurate and real-time information that a customer environment has been compromised, allowing faster response.
  • Up-to-date intelligence about the newest threats:
    Lists of malicious IPs are updated daily with the latest attack, scan, and C&C IPs.
  • Reduced exposure to malicious actors:
    Drastically reduce your attack surface to malicious actors that attempt to attack, scan, or make a C&C connection with your organization.

The Guardicore Threat Intelligence Firewall leverages data consumed from Guardicore’s Cyber Threat Intelligence feed, a publicly available resource tracking potential threats specific to data center and cloud infrastructure, eliminating false positives. For more details visit Guardicore’s blog. 

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 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.