GuardiCore, which develops security solutions for data centers, has closed an $11 million financing round led by Battery Ventures with the participation of Greylock Partners and undisclosed strategic investors. As part of the investment, Battery general partner Scott Tobin will join GuardiCore’s board.
The company will use the investment to expand, develop its product and sell its technology, which tracks and eliminates intruders inside data center networks.
“GuardiCore is developing a completely new breed of network security,” said GuardiCore CEO Pavel Gurvich. “Powered by software-defined networking (SDN) methodologies and recent advances in virtualization, our solution is scalable to multi-terabit traffic rates. GuardiCore’s mission is simple: to provide security and IT executives with advanced tools to win the war against cyber-attacks.”
The company’s first platform component, called “Active Honeypot,” responds to attacks by dynamically re-routing traffic, without the attacker knowing, to a highly monitored stealth “ambush” server. This approach exposes the true intentions of an attacker, provides quick insights about the nature of the attack and eliminates it in real-time.
Tobin said, “As the data center evolves to a more software-defined model, enterprises need to think about security in radically different ways. Traditional security techniques have focused on keeping the bad guys out of the perimeter. But as we’ve seen in recent, high-profile security breaches, these methods are far from complete. GuardiCore’s approach assumes you have already been compromised and provides levels of visibility and protection that were previously unattainable.”
Published by Globes [online], Israel business news - www.globes-online.com - on August 18, 2014
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