PrivateCore: Another Virtualization-Enabled Security Solution Launches…
On the heels of Bromium’s coming-out party yesterday at Gigamon’s Structure conference, PrivateCore — a company founded by VMware vets Oded Horovitz and Carl Waldspurger and Google’s Steve Weis — announced a round of financing and what I interpret as a more interesting and focused Raison d’être.
Previously in videos released by Oded, he described the company’s focus around protecting servers (cloud, otherwise) against physical incursion whilst extracting contents from memory, etc. where physical access is required.
From what I could glean, the PrivateCore solution utilizes encryption and CPU cache (need to confirm) to provide memory isolation to render these attack vectors moot.
What’s interesting is the way in which PrivateCore is now highlighting the vehicle for their solution; a “hardened hypervisor.”
It will be interesting to see how well they can market this approach/technology (and to whom,) what sort of API/management planes their VMM provides and how long they stand-alone before being snapped up — perhaps even by VMware or Citrix.
More good action (and $2.25M in funding) in the virtual security space.
/Hoff
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