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By Mark Weatherford | February 11, 2019

Introducing 'Semi-Serious Security' Video Series

“ Semi-Serious Security” is vArmour's new spontaneous and informal video podcast series where we interview cybersecurity professionals from around the world in a fun and relaxed way. Our mission is to increase the conversation aro...

By Matt Ebben | December 13, 2018

Azure Case Study: How vArmour is helping a large organization with their multicloud project

If you’re one who pays attention to financial news, you may have recently heard that Microsoft has surpassed Apple to become (at the date of this blog post) the world’s most valuable company in terms of market cap. Twenty-four mon...

By Diana Nicholas | October 3, 2018

vArmour Named a 2019 Distinguished Vendor by TAG Cyber Security

We are proud to announce that TAG Cyber Security has selected vArmour as a Distinguished Vendor in the 2019 TAG Cyber Security Annual. We are honored to be included in this exclusive list, validating our approach to hybrid-cloud s...

By Seth Chromick | September 13, 2018

Unpacking Containerization Part 2: vArmour, Containers, and DevSecOps

DevSecOps is a philosophy of software development that understands security risks in a holistic manner. The software AND infrastructure should hardened against threats, and the ownership of security is shared between product manag...

By Diana Nicholas | August 6, 2018

Unpacking Containerization Part 1: Defining Container Technology and Its Benefits

Containers are exploding in popularity and are becoming the preferred method for deploying applications. In this four-part Unpacking Containerization blog series, we will explain the benefits of containers, the challenges of conta...

By Kevin Turner | July 2, 2018

Customers Love Us on Gartner Peer Insights!

If you haven’t heard, customers love us on Gartner Peer Insights! What is Gartner Peer Insights? You can think of Peer Insights like Gartner’s version of Yelp for enterprise IT software. It’s where IT professionals leave anonymous...

By Seth Chromick | June 18, 2018

New Features in App Explorer for Application Visibility

vArmour is excited to announce its newest addition to the App Explorer visibility solution for critical applications - the Microsoft SQL Security Risk Report. This detailed report provides deeper insight into the configuration, de...

By Faraz Aladin | April 5, 2018

Are you ready for GDPR?

With just weeks to go until the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) becomes enforceable on May 25, most global companies are racing to prepare. They all want to avoid the substantial fines (up to four percent of revenue) and...

By Marc Woolward | January 13, 2018

Building Cyber-Resilience

What a year we’ve seen! In addition to the continued ‘Mega Breaches’ we’ve seen increasing evidence that software complexity means there is no such thing as ‘Secure Code’. We’ve seen huge holes in common protocol implementations (...

By Colin Ross | December 28, 2017

Microsegmentation for Consolidation - Journey of a Legal Enterprise Customer

As the head of World Wide Professional Services at vArmour, I have had the honor of working with some of the largest companies in the world across finance, telco and healthcare to help them in their journey towards microsegmentati...

By Marc Woolward | December 20, 2017

Cloud Security Predictions for 2018

Considering it’s the season for annual predictions, I asked a few of the leaders and experts at vArmour to tell us what they think 2018 will bring. Since we spend our time at vArmour helping our customers secure their clouds and h...

By Faraz Aladin | December 18, 2017

Securing Enterprise Applications and Data: vArmour Approach

The diverse nature of today’s corporate networks demand a security response that’s no longer fixated on data center hardware and perimeter defenses, or the accumulation of extensive suites of security products. Instead, security n...

By Namson Tran | December 12, 2017

vArmour Named SINET 16 Innovator Award Winner For Second Time

The Security Innovation Network (SINET) has selected vArmour as a SINET 16 Innovator for the second time in the last 3 years. We were proud to have first won this in 2015, and beyond proud to be named a winner again this year, val...

By Myo Zarny | August 30, 2017

vArmour Policy Automation: Intent-Based, Simple and Safe

Policy automation is a rather broad term. Both policy and automation could mean many things to many people. In network security, policy is often viewed in terms of firewall (or firewall-like) rules, which in theory are manifestati...

By Preeta Raman | August 17, 2017

vArmour’s Marketing department wins 2017 Stevie Award!

vArmour’s Marketing team was recently recognized with the 2017 Stevie Award for Marketing Department of the Year. Led by CMO Eva Tsai, the team is infused with her DNA: smart, analytical, resourceful, and agile. Eva and her team e...

By Kevin Turner | July 22, 2017

Turning Customers Into Partners: vArmour & Marketo

A business’s success is determined, in part, by its ability to connect with its customers. Marketing lives and dies by how well they can relate to customers in ways that reflect their aims and challenges. vArmour takes pride in ho...

By Marc Woolward | July 7, 2017

This Is The Age Of Microsegmentation

Microsegmentation has taken center stage! Gartner just issued a report titled “Comparing Products for Microsegmentation in Virtualized Data Centers,” concluding that microsegmentation has become a top priority for security control...

By Eva Tsai | July 5, 2017

Segmentation: The Chokehold for Malware

This past week, the world braced itself for WannaCry 2.0 when the Petya malware infected over 12,000 machines in around 65 countries, including the United States. News outlets stumbled through misinformation as security researcher...

By Brian Tully | May 30, 2017

What are you really securing - Containers only or your entire cloud?

As microservice based applications continue to grow in significance, many organizations are finding themselves in the middle of grassroots efforts to build out new container based environments that are simple, scalable, and secure...

By Seth Chromick | May 17, 2017

Real-world Healthcare Customer Case: WannaCry

Network defenders are no strangers to worms or ransomware, but last Friday’s unprecedented, global cyber incident was caused by a lethal combination of both kinds - an aggressive worm that spread in parallel inside local networks ...

By Safinah Ali | May 10, 2017

vArmour Design Sharing Sessions - Google’s Iram Mirza

At vArmour, we actively seek out diverse perspectives to make our work more impactful. vArmour’s design team members come from a plethora of backgrounds and bring various skillsets to the table. vArmour’s design team started the ‘...

By Kevin Turner | May 2, 2017

Collaborating With Customers: Grand Rapids Community College (GRCC)

At vArmour, we are always looking for opportunities to talk to our customers. Hosting customers at our headquarters allows us to give a preview of upcoming product functionality and receive feedback from the actual people that use...

By Matt Ebben | April 27, 2017

Distributed Platform-Powered Deception Technology

At vArmour, we’ve spent a lot of time, effort, and energy these past few years building the world’s most effective application-aware microsegmentation solution: the innovative Distributed Security System (DSS). This system allows ...

By Matt Ebben | April 25, 2017

Application-aware Microsegmentation for Data Center Consolidation

When undertaking Data Center Consolidation or Refresh projects, we hear CIOs and IT Operators telling us the same things over and over. The old way of running IT Operations is no longer cost-efficient in competitive industries. ...

By Preeta Raman | April 19, 2017

Secure Multi-Cloud Application Portability with Containers

The IT discussion of today is not even a traditional IT discussion anymore. Today, we don’t really talk much about machines or hardware - they are mere commodities or “resources” to advance us toward our technology goals. Instead,...

By Jesse McKenna | April 17, 2017

SWIFT Attacks are Evolving - Is Your Segmentation Strategy?

Not too long ago, very few people had heard of the Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication or SWIFT. The organization’s standardized message format has been adopted as the global standard for interbank financia...

By Jesse McKenna | April 12, 2017

Riding the Wave of New Cybersecurity Regulations with Stateful Segmentation

Despite the fact that we often view regulations as preventative measures designed to protect individuals, enterprises, or governments, the truth is that a large percentage of regulations are actually enacted in response to things ...

By Brian Tully | April 4, 2017

Application-Aware Microsegmentation on Cisco ACI

The best enterprise infrastructures today are Agile - this means that they are programmable and automated, with full insight and visibility into every layer of the environment to ensure that the infrastructure stays dynamic and co...

By Matt Ebben | March 24, 2017

Achieving End-to-End Multi-Cloud Security with vArmour DSS + SD-WAN

If you’ve attended any of the various open networking or SDN-centric industry events in the past few years, you may have recently noticed a shift in what folks are talking about and which booths have some of the most prominent dis...

By Brian Tully and John Stuppiello | March 23, 2017

Securing User Access Into the Cloud Data Center

IT organizations are faced with the growing problem of the adoption and integration of disparate technologies. The exponential increase in connected devices and IOT has driven the need to support BYOD and enhanced user access and ...

By Kevin Turner | March 15, 2017

Collaborating with Customers: Adam Savage from the University of Waterloo

The vArmour Customer Partnership Program offers customers a unique opportunity to meet our executive and R&D teams to share their knowledge, insights and success, which in turn help shape the direction of our product. We recen...

By Kevin Turner | March 1, 2017

Tom August, CISO at John Muir Health Discusses Risk Planning on RSAC TV

At this year’s RSA Conference in San Francisco, Tom August, Chief Information Security Officer at John Muir Health met with Sara Peters, Senior Editor at Dark Reading to discuss healthcare risk assessment and planning. The intervi...

By Kevin Turner | January 27, 2017

Desert Research Institute Visits vArmour HQ

Our goal at vArmour is to keep our customers at the core of our business… to be a customer-centric organization that learns from our customers and their experiences. We periodically invite key customers to spend a day at our Mount...

By Matt Reese | January 19, 2017

How vArmour Adds Value in Your Migration to Cisco ACI

I was recently speaking to a customer in the critical infrastructure segment who planned to migrate from a legacy Cisco Data Center network to Cisco Nexus 9K and eventually ACI. This customer’s systems were hyper-sensitive, highly...

By Martin Brown | January 5, 2017

Creating Success Criteria for Service Providers

Service providers today face some interesting challenges. Regardless of their size, or which vertical or horizontal segment they see as their dominant market, they still have to meet certain criteria in order to remain competitive...

By Tim Eades | December 30, 2016

Cheers, 2016: vArmour Year in Review

2016 has been momentous for vArmour - a very busy year with global customers and global expansion, product launches, multiple industry awards, patent innovations as well as a new round of financing. Our mantra “You can’t protect w...

By Matt Reese | December 19, 2016

The case for Layer 7 visibility with Cisco ACI

Picture this . . . You just bought Cisco ACI for your data center and now your major project is to segment your brownfield environment. Perhaps the need for this segmentation is driven by your auditors, or because you need to migr...

By Kevin Turner | December 14, 2016

vArmour Customer John Muir Health Honored with CSO50 Award

It always excites us to see our customers recognized for the incredible work that they do. Earlier this week, IDG’s CSO honored vArmour customer John Muir Health as a recipient of a 2017 CSO50 Award for the outstanding business va...

By Matt Reese | December 5, 2016

5 Reasons Why vArmour DSS and Cisco ACI are Better Together for the Modern Data Center

The Cisco ACI architecture is based upon a Spine and Leaf network fabric where all connections are point-to-point and fully meshed, delivering great performance and resiliency. A great advantage of the Spine and Leaf model is a c...

By Kevin Turner | November 29, 2016

Dubai Municipality Visits vArmour Headquarters

From time to time, vArmour is proud to host key customers at our Mountain View, California headquarters. Customers share their experiences working with the company and get to meet the team behind the vArmour DSS product. Our most ...

By Marc Woolward | November 29, 2016

Container Security - Not Just About the Image

A slightly modified version of this article was published as a byline by EnterpriseTech on 29th November 2016. A cynic might conclude that “image” has more than a little to do with the phenomenal interest in containers and m...

By David Anderson | November 9, 2016

vArmour partners with Coalfire to validate support for PCI DSS 3.2

“If you think compliance is expensive, try non-compliance.” - Former U.S. Deputy Attorney General Paul McNulty In the wake of increased cyber attacks, ransomware, and heightened regulations, our customers across the globe are scra...

By Seth Chromick | November 8, 2016

When an OS Vulnerability Undermines Your Entire Security Stack - The Case for Control Independence

In our last blog about agents - The Problem with Agents (as a Primary Means of Security Policy Enforcement) - our CTO Marc Woolward called out several areas in which the effectiveness of an agent as a means of security control is ...

By Lauren MacLean | September 15, 2016

Microsegmentation cost saving #5: Increase speed of secure application delivery

In our last blog , we covered how microsegmentation can save you money in seeing and stopping threats much more quickly and easily than alternative approaches. Today we’ll focus on our final microsegmentation cost saving that is s...

By Mark Weatherford | September 7, 2016

Simple, Scalable, Secure Cyber Deception: Introducing vArmour DSS Deception

"It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data. Insensibly one begins to twist facts to suit theories, instead of theories to suit facts." -Sherlock Holmes Deception for cybersecurity: On the rise One of the great fortun...

By Lauren MacLean | August 24, 2016

Microsegmentation cost saving #4: Lower time to see and stop cyber threats

In our last blog , we covered how microsegmentation can save you money by streamlining the often-siloed process of security policy changes. Today we’ll focus on another time-saver that is even more critical to protecting your orga...

By Marc Woolward | August 10, 2016

The Problem with Agents - as a Primary Means of Security Policy Enforcement

In earlier blogs, I talked about the differences between microsegmentation approaches , and the fundamental differences to look out for. One of the differences I mentioned is whether: 1) Controls are independent of the workload or...

By Lauren MacLean | July 27, 2016

Microsegmentation cost saving #3: Reduce time and complexity of security changes

In our last blog , we covered how microsegmentation can save you money by avoiding hardware refresh cycles. If you’re looking for benefits your information security – and application - team will love, today we will cover way #3: r...

By Matt Reese | July 21, 2016

CiscoLive Recap: The Ice Cold Facts about Our Partnership

During our successful networking event at Minus5 Ice Bar on Monday evening (check out the photos from the event ), one customer asked me, how does vArmour DSS work with Cisco ACI and Cisco Tetration? Short answer: we drive out com...

By Dean Hickman-Smith | July 20, 2016

Partner News Alert: vArmour Recognized by CRN As A 2016 Emerging Vendor

We’re very excited to say that CRN has named vArmour to its 2016 list of Emerging Vendors. This annual list recognizes recently founded, up-and-coming technology suppliers who are shaping the future of the IT channel through uniqu...

By Matt Reese | June 24, 2016

vArmour talks Cloud Security at Nutanix .NEXT

This week, we were in Vegas for the Nutanix .NEXT conference. Nutanix demonstrated their strong vision for building a better private cloud infrastructure, one that you can own and operate. We were particularly taken by their annou...

By Lauren MacLean | June 22, 2016

Microsegmentation cost saving #2: Avoid hardware refresh and maintenance

In our last blog , we covered how microsegmentation can save you money by eliminating under-utilized zones and choke points. If you’re not sold yet on the value of microsegmentation and are looking for more benefits, today we’ll ...

By Lauren MacLean | June 10, 2016

Microsegmentation cost saving #1: Eliminate under-utilized zones and choke points

In our last blog , I shared what secure microsegmentation is and how it not only protects your data center and cloud, but also saves you a bunch of money – win, win for any organization. As promised, today we will go into detail o...

By Lauren MacLean | May 31, 2016

[Infographic] 5 Ways Microsegmentation Can Really Save You Money

There are two things all of our customers at vArmour have in common: they want (and need) to reduce their risk and their costs. Unfortunately, in the security world, these two things don’t usually go together. For most customers, ...

By Tim Eades | May 25, 2016

Why It’s Time for Security to Change or Die

Some could look back and say, what if punk never happened? What did it really do? Why did some people think punk was a university in itself? To me, punk was about unlocking people, values and ideas to do things differently and be ...

By Dean Hickman-Smith | May 11, 2016

[Video] CTO of Education Networks of America on Protecting Our Kids’ Data

Our nation’s schools, colleges, and universities are responsible for our country’s most precious assets— our children. In addition to their physical security, these organizations are also charged with the task of keeping our stude...

By Mark Weatherford | May 3, 2016

Cloud Security: Incredible New Possibilities

Way back in the 18th century, Ben Franklin said, “Distrust and caution are the parents of security.” That insight is entirely appropriate in the 21st century as companies deliberately and thoughtfully seek to take advantage of the...

By Keith Stewart | April 20, 2016

[Video] Why You Need Application-Centric Security in Hyper Converged

Since announcing our partnership with HPE earlier this year, we’ve been working together to bring simple and secure hyper converged infrastructure solution to market. A few weeks ago, our CTO Marc Woolward sat down with Sr. Direct...

By Marc Woolward | April 19, 2016

The Genesis of Project Ice Cream to Deliver Cloud-Scale Security

Clouds are based on speed, scale and economics, which are the antithesis of legacy security systems. In fact, these factors can be challenging to any true security functions, which need to maintain state, process content deeply, a...

By Marc Woolward | April 13, 2016

Containers and Microservice Security: Are You Ready to Expose Your Application Internals to the Outside World?

I am often asked how the emergence of Containers and Microservices changes the game so far as multi-cloud security is concerned. In some ways, Containers mean MORE of the same - more speed, more scale, more automation, more contro...

By Dean Hickman-Smith | April 13, 2016

[Video] Head of Infrastructure of Equens on the Importance of Proactive Cloud Security

Of all the customers I meet, those in financial services are undergoing one of the most significant shifts when it comes to the digitization of their industry, replacing their brick and mortar locations that see hundreds of custom...

By Michael Yamnitsky | April 4, 2016

A New Cloud Security Unicorn Will Rise From The Cybersecurity Ashes

After a boisterous 2015, 2016 looks gloomy for the cybersecurity industry as the market correction and uncertain macro economic environment set in. Last year, investors on Sand Hill Road poured $3.8 billion into security startups,...

By Mark Weatherford | March 24, 2016

[Video] 1000 Security Vendor Pitches Later: My Interview with Richard Stiennon

At this year’s RSA Conference, I got to spend a little time with longtime friend and industry expert, Richard Stiennon, from IT-Harvest. We talked about why I switched to the “dark side” of security by joining a vendor company and...

By David Anderson | March 16, 2016

Preparing For Application-Layer Security Vulnerabilities

We have seen a steady stream of attacks over the last few years, many of which resulted in monumental losses of data and embarrassment for organizations. But not all breaches are attributed to an organizational mistake. Take for e...

By Betsy Atkins | March 8, 2016

Your Board and Cybersecurity: “Disruption” is at Your Boardroom Door

What is the most obvious statement about the impact of technology on your business? That it is proving massively disruptive. But for the corporate board members of companies today, this tech disruption seems limited to hardware, m...

By Keith Stewart | March 1, 2016

Cisco and vArmour team to bring application-layer security to the multi-cloud

If you watch the network and security spaces closely, you may have seen Cisco’s announcement today naming vArmour as a member of their ACI ecosystem. If you missed it, not a problem, you can see it here . We're excited to integrat...

By Keith Stewart | February 24, 2016

The New Guard Makes a New Friend: Our Partnership with HPE To Simplify and Secure the On-Demand Data Center

Today, we announced a relationship with HP Enterprise to bring the vArmour DSS Distributed Security System to two of their most strategic product lines: converged infrastructure and security. This is exciting because together, we ...

By Tim Eades | February 23, 2016

He Who Dares Wins: Meet the New Guard of Security

In a recent interview with CNBC , I talked about a changing of the guard that is happening in the security world. It’s becoming clear to everyone that bad guys are out-innovating traditional products…causing many of those se...

By Tim Eades | February 17, 2016

[Video] This is the Year of Microsegmentation Made Simple

More and more, the IT and InfoSec leaders we work with are realizing the need to move away from perimeter-centric, hardware-based security models that aren’t sufficient to address the trillions of dollars of cybercrimes festering ...

By Mark Weatherford | February 10, 2016

Cybersecurity in the Desert: 2016 International Cybersecurity Conference Recap

I recently had the opportunity to speak at the 2016 International Cybersecurity Conference in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, attended by over 500 global cybersecurity leaders. The purpose of the event was to bring the National Critical Inf...

By Dan Lowden | February 2, 2016

[Video] vArmour In the News - January Recap

We kicked off 2016 with coverage in top news publications – from CNBC to the New York Times - of many of our executives and product experts. In this month’s news round-up, watch CEO Tim’s interview on Squawk Box and read VP of Peo...

By Tim Eades | January 28, 2016

[CEO Video]: Why Nutanix and vArmour are a Perfect Fit

Since announcing our partnership with Nutanix last year, we have been working closely together to bring our simple and secure data center and cloud solutions to customers everywhere. As we continue to deepen our relationship ...

By Dean Hickman-Smith | January 20, 2016

[Video] CIO of John Muir Health on Securing the Digitization of Healthcare

In many of my conversations with our customers in financial services to retail, they talk about the digitization of their industry. Healthcare is no exception to this trend, from actual services provided to electronic patient reco...

By Ryan Wager | January 12, 2016

Why The First Order Needed Microsegmentation

A few weeks ago, I, like many fans, was thrust back to my childhood with the latest in the Star Wars franchise – The Force Awakens. From the moment we saw the first glimpse of the Millennium Falcon until the gut-wrenching turn of ...

By David Marshall | January 6, 2016

2016 Predictions: Cyber warfare, presidential election hacking and how hackers will shift their tactics to become more lucrative

Virtualization and cloud executives share their predictions for 2016 in this 8th Annual VMblog.com series exclusive featuring Mark Weatherford, ex deputy undersecretary for cyber security at the Department of Homeland Security and...

By Tim Eades | December 29, 2015

Cheers, 2015: vArmour Year in Review

This year has been groundbreaking for vArmour—filled with product launches, new board member and executive appointments, as well as customer growth and strategic partnerships. We are thrilled by our achievements and grateful for r...

By Marc Woolward | December 22, 2015

Prediction: Part 5 of Multi-Cloud Security Architecture CTO Deep Dive

In part four of my blog series on the Multi-Cloud Security Architecture , we explored the range of response options available for multi-clouds, covering both automated and manual tactics. With the inputs of data gathered throughou...

By Marc Woolward | December 16, 2015

Response: Part 4 of Multi-Cloud Security Architecture CTO Deep Dive

In part three of my blog series on the Multi-Cloud Security Architecture , we looked at the various methodologies for detection in multi-clouds - from human investigation to machine-learning technologies. Once an attack is detecte...

By Marc Woolward | December 10, 2015

Detection: Part 3 of Multi-Cloud Security Architecture CTO Deep Dive

In part two of my blog series on the Multi-Cloud Security Architecture , we covered the key elements needed to prevent security incidents in multi-cloud environments. Unfortunately, it is nearly inevitable in any organization that...

By Marc Woolward | December 1, 2015

Prevention: Part 2 of Multi-Cloud Security Architecture CTO Deep Dive

In part one of my deep dive blog series on the Multi-Cloud Security Architecture, we addressed the foundational elements of the MCSA. This primarily focused on the architecture as being API-driven, distributed and independent from...

By Marc Woolward | November 17, 2015

Introducing the Multi-Cloud Security Architecture

Today we launch the Multi-Cloud Security Architecture - and the pathway to get there. This is an industry-wide vision for multi-cloud security which will both address the security challenges emerging in a world of ‘constant breach...

By Meg McCarthy | November 12, 2015

Cyber Security Improvements in Healthcare & Beyond: Q&A with Meg McCarthy

We are excited to have Meg McCarthy, healthcare technology leader and Aetna EVP of Operations and Technology, join our Board of Directors this week . Meg is bringing her industry expertise in technology and operations to her advis...

By Gary Moore | November 10, 2015

Technology Tsunamis and Disruption on Steroids: Q&A with Gary Moore

We are welcoming industry veteran and thought leader Gary Moore to our Board of Directors today . Gary is bringing 40+ years of experience, most recently from Cisco as the President and COO, to his advisory role at vArmour. As Gar...

By Matt Williamson | November 4, 2015

What Do Robots, Hockey & Data Centers Have in Common?: Q&A with Dr. Matt Williamson

We are lucky to have Dr. Matt Williamson joining the vArmour CTO Office as our Chief Threat Defense Scientist . Matt brings a wealth of experience and expertise in the areas of distributed systems architecture, machine learning an...

By Mark Weatherford | November 2, 2015

No More Security Snake Oil: Q&A with Mark Weatherford

We are excited today to welcome Mark Weatherford as our new SVP and Chief Cybersecurity Strategist . Mark is bringing more than 20 years of security operations leadership and executive-level policy experience from the Department o...

By Marc Woolward | October 28, 2015

Why Multi-Clouds Demand a New Approach to Security

The changes in IT over the past decade, driven by cloud and distributed systems, have exploded the data center perimeter security model. One result of this trend is the move to use microsegmentation technologies to shift the trust...

By Jesse McKenna | October 28, 2015

Talking the Talk and Walking the Walk to Secure Your Data Center

It is now a week since the announcement that TalkTalk (no, not Talk Talk , the 80s new wave rock group), had been the subject of a targeted cyber attack that potentially exposed the personal information of up to four million ...

By Tim Eades | October 22, 2015

Never Mind the Traditional. Here's How to Lead Like a Punk Rocker.

Face it: You will never be Jeff Bezos or Larry Page, and you shouldn’t try. You can’t blaze the same trail as those who came before you by adopting a like-minded vision, or mirroring their solutions with slightly new features. Doi...

By Keith Stewart | October 5, 2015

Moving Your Workloads to Amazon Web Services? Secure Them with vArmour

At vArmour, we see more and more enterprises moving applications and workloads of all kinds to public cloud - to increase IT responsiveness and agility while reducing costs. Naturally, these organizations want the scalability...

By Dan Lowden | October 1, 2015

vArmour In the News - September Roundup

In this month’s news roundup, we are featuring our CEO Tim’s punk rock article in Entrepreneur as well as his recent interview on CNBC Closing Bell, commenting on what the Chinese president’s visit to the US means for internationa...

By Tony Paterra | September 24, 2015

Nutanix guest blog: Build out your private cloud cheaper, safer & faster

Since partnering with Nutanix in June, we have worked closely with their product team to become Nutanix Ready certified and also look to the future together, as we both continue to develop the best infrastructure and security solu...

By Tony Paterra | September 16, 2015

Calling All VMware Users: vArmour is Officially VMware Ready

There is no arguing that the data center has fundamentally changed - yesterday’s hardware siloes have been replaced by today’s virtualized data centers and clouds. The global leader in this industry shift to server virtualization ...

By Dan Lowden | August 28, 2015

vArmour In the News - August Roundup

In this month’s news roundup, we are covering insider advice from our CISO Laz on how to make your IT team a hero and also the “cyberthug holidays” you need to prepare for now. Plus, we share coverage of our partnership with innov...

By Dan Lowden | August 25, 2015

Take Your Pick of This Month’s Top Data Center Security Webinars

In today’s climate of ever-increasing cyber security attacks, we know how hard it is for InfoSec and IT professionals to find time to attend in-person events. So at vArmour, we want to make it as easy as possible to view valuable ...

By Ryan Wager | August 14, 2015

Top 5 Highlights from Black Hat and DEF CON 2015

Well here we are, all settled back into our normal lives after a week of excitement and fun at the industry’s annual hacker getaway known to the world as Black Hat / DEF CON. As expected, this year’s event included technologies fr...

By Keith Stewart | August 12, 2015

Q and A with Peter Christy of 451 Research: Security Challenges for the Digital Enterprise

I am excited to join Peter Christy, 451 Research Director, in our upcoming webinar on August 20 - Cloud Computing and the Digital Enterprise: Security Challenges and Opportunities . In preparation for our discussion on how to best...

By Marc Woolward | August 11, 2015

Security Architectures for Cloud Data Centers

Organizations are entering the first phase of microsegmentation architectures: the act of deploying security policies across scale-out data center networks in order to separate diverse workloads, collapse legacy physical zones, an...

By Dan Lowden | July 29, 2015

vArmour In the News - July Roundup

In spite of the 4th of July holiday and summer vacation breaks, we still had a very busy July here at vArmour and wanted to share some of our news coverage in our first monthly media roundup blog. Our executives - including our CE...

By Dean Hickman-Smith | July 22, 2015

vArmour Named on CRN’s 2015 Emerging Vendors – And We Want to Make You a Partner

We are excited and honored to be named to The Channel Company’s exclusive 2015 CRN® Emerging Vendors List . With our industry-first distributed security system, we are featured as one of the “new kids” on the tech block that are c...

By Keith Stewart | July 2, 2015

It’s Official: vArmour and Nutanix Team Up to Deliver Simple, Secure Data Centers

Today, we are excited to announce our formal partnership with Nutanix to deliver converged compute and storage, with security, as an easy-to-manage, distributed system for enterprise and web-scale applications. This announcement c...

By Tim Eades | June 25, 2015

Lead Your Company Like a Punk Rock Star

It's hard to imagine that Tim Eades, the CEO of security company vArmour, used to be a part of the punk rock scene in London. He hung out with the bands, drove to concerts, and adopted the lifestyle of questioning the norm. Guess ...

By Eva Tsai | June 18, 2015

What vArmour DSS-V Means for You, Our Users

As a follow-up to the release of our free product, vArmour DSS-V , we sat down with two of our own IT specialists at vArmour, Eva and Laz, to get their perspective on the importance of this easy-to-access, downloadable model for I...

By Keith Stewart | June 11, 2015

Nutanix + vArmour = Distributed Everything (No, Really - It Is)

Walking into the conference room for our first meeting at Nutanix’s San Jose headquarters, I noticed immediately how Nutanix had lined the walls with posters of words and images of their key mantras: Distributed Everything, Scale ...

By Tim Eades | June 10, 2015

Submarines are Built for War - Your Data Center Isn’t

Submarines are made for war - they exist under the assumption that they will be attacked some day, and are constructed with this fact in mind. Unlike submarines, data centers built in the last 15 years were not designed for today’...

By Jesse McKenna | June 5, 2015

OPM Breach Demonstrates the Need for Data Center Visibility

Yesterday, we learned that the U.S. government’s Office of Personnel Management (OPM) was breached and attackers made off with personally identifiable information of up to 4 million federal workers, which is roughly the total numb...

By Ryan Wager | June 3, 2015

Bloomberg Recap Video - Patriot Act Expiration and Cybersecurity Data Monitoring

This week, I was flattered to be invited to appear as an expert on a Bloomberg West television panel to discuss the expiration of the Patriot Act and its impact on data monitoring for cyber security. It was even more complimentary...

By Dean Hickman-Smith | May 28, 2015

Become a vArmour Invited Partner & Let Us Show YOU the Money

Today, I am excited to introduce an essential component to bringing vArmour’s industry-first distributed security system to markets worldwide: the vArmour Invited Partners program, or “VIP” as we like to call it. At vArmour, we be...

By Zhiping Liu | May 21, 2015

Why Do We Need New Solutions for Securing Today’s Cloud? Find out from Zhiping Liu, Head of Threat Security Engineering

In the final part of our blog series, we spend time with the head of our threat security engineering team, Zhiping Liu, to learn about the gaps she sees in traditional security solutions to protect the modern data center, why she ...

By Dean Hickman-Smith | May 18, 2015

Is Beer a Snack? And other Questions & Answers from our new SVP of Field Operations, Dean Hickman-Smith

In part two of our blog series to get to know our new executives, we sat down with our recently announced SVP of Field Operations, Dean Hickman-Smith, who, like our CEO, hails from across the pond (so… you can excuse some of his U...

By Demetrios “Laz” Lazarikos | May 14, 2015

What Makes vArmour Unique?

Yesterday, we announced three talented new hires to vArmour - and are kicking off our blog series so you can get to know each one a bit better. We are starting today with our industry-veteran CISO, Laz, whose past roles include: I...

By Marc Woolward | May 12, 2015

Applying Distributed Systems Principles to the Data Center Security Challenge

In my previous post I explored many of the challenges we are struggling to address with existing security models and products. Today I want to spend a while discussing the reasons why a distributed systems architecture is necessar...

By Michael Shieh and Roger Lian | April 16, 2015

Innovation in a World without Perimeters

When we first started the company, the world was a different place. The movement toward software-based distributed infrastructure within the data center was picking up steam. Compute had been re-invented by virtualization, and it ...

By Tim Eades | April 1, 2015

Avoid a network stampede

Both enterprises and the every-day-man anxiously await the convenient future promised by the Internet of Things . Analysts at Gartner echo the sentiment with estimates that IoT will support total spending services of $69.5 billion...

By Demetrios “Laz” Lazarikos | March 9, 2015

Data Center Security: Controlling Threat in Your Facility

Database breaches and cyber crime cost the global economy more than $400 billion on an annual basis and there is no evidence that these metrics are improving, in fact, they are getting worse. What is Making Matters Worse? The incr...

By Marc Woolward | February 11, 2015

From a Security Perspective, the Datacenter is Broken

Having spent the best part of 3 decades architecting and operating Enterprise infrastructure, including 16 years at Goldman Sachs, it became clear to me that the security model within the Datacenter represents the last major barri...

By Demetrios “Laz” Lazarikos | January 13, 2015

Protecting Your Agile Data Center: You Can't Fight the New War With Old Tools

Data infrastructure and function has experienced a paradigm shift with the enterprise progressing steadily in the age of cloud, apps and mobility, marking the end of the “perimeter” era for the computing environment. Yesterday’s f...

By Lane Bess | November 19, 2014

Security: "Journey to the Edge of the Perimeter"

Since serving as CEO of Palo Alto Networks (2008 – 2011), I have seen the types of threats evolve and develop in a number of notable ways and become more dangerous for the enterprise than ever. As such, the security industry has a...

By Ryan Wager | October 6, 2014

The Evolution of Cyber Threats: Why a New Approach is Needed

The evolution of cyber threats and their inextricable link to system advancements When it comes to defending against modern day attacks, the primary issue is that the traditional, commonly used security perimeter was built prior t...

By Tim Eades | September 16, 2014

Dig the New Breed

There’s a great live album by The Jam called, “Dig the New Breed”. It’s an incredible album, and for me defined the mix of old and new that made The Jam such a great band. They paid homage to those who had come before,...

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