Toolbox’s Top 4 Security Wins for the Week of June 19, 2020

This week we take a closer look at McAfee, Balbix, Volterra, and HillStone Networks that have clinched top honors for their deep security portfolios.

McAfee Clinched Data Protection Honors at 2020 Fortress Cyber Security Awards

Riding high on the company’s CASB solution being namedOpens a new window as the only January 2020 Gartner Peer Insights Customers’ Choice for Cloud Access Security Brokers, McAfee has now won the top honours for enterprise data protection at 2020 Fortress Cyber Security Awards.

MVISION Cloud’s data protection and governance for networks, cloud environmentsOpens a new window , on-premise infra, and devices is elemental to the company’s win at the 2020 Fortress Cyber Security Awards. McAfee MVISION Cloud is an AI-driven cloud access security broker or CASB solution for active threat monitoring and detection, data protection and web security compatible with Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS), Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS), and Software-as-a-Service (SaaS).

Maria Jimenez, Chief Nominations Officer at Business Intelligence Group, organizer of Fortress Cyber Security Awards said, “We are proud to name McAfee MVISION Cloud as a winner in the 2020 Fortress Cyber Security Awards program. As our society continues to evolve and become more reliant on networks and data, companies like McAfee are critical at providing the protection and the trust their customers demand.

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Volterra Gets High Marks for Cloud ServicesVolterra emerged from stealth in November 2019Opens a new window and has now marked its position as the best player in securing multi-cloud network and application services. The company won the Best of Show Grand Prize Award for its VoltMesh SaaS solution at Interop Tokyo 2020.

According to the company, VoltMesh is the industry’s first app-to-app networking and securityOpens a new window service. VoltMesh is based on zero-trust security and is suitable for multi-cloud as well as edge environments for unified networking, application delivery.

Judges at Interop Tokyo 2020, now in its fourth decade, said, “VoltMesh combines network and security services (including service mesh/load balancer, API gateway, firewall, encrypted communications) into one platform and provides it as SaaS (+NaaS). These combined and comprehensive functions facilitate multi-cloud/multi-cluster application delivery — we highly appreciate Volterra making these broad capabilities possible.”

Balbix Emerges on Top in Network SecurityOpens a new window at 2020 Fortress Cyber Security Award

Balbix bagged the 2020 Fortress Cyber Security Award in Network Security – Small Company category for its BreachControl solution.

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Business Intelligence Group’s Jimenez said, “As our society continues to evolve and become more reliant on networks and data, companies like Balbix are critical at providing the protection and trust consumers demand.”

The expansion of the attack surface area of enterprise networks, which now includes cloud, IoT devices, other endpoints etc generates a great deal of data, whose automated analysis is key to scaling up security. Balbix BreachControl employs artificial intelligence and predictive analytics for security assessment of cyber threats and breach scenarios across the enterprise wide attack surface.

Other honours Balbix has been approbated with include Gartner Cool vendor 2018Opens a new window , 2018 Value Leader by EMA, Cyber Security Excellence Awards Winner 2019.

HillStone Networks Now a 2020 Gartner Market Guide for Network Detection & Response Vendor

Gartner recently published the 2020 Gartner Market Guide for Network Detection & Response report. It encapsulates the companies to watch out for consideration with respect to network detection and response solutions for advanced threat prevention. The report lists HillStone Networks as one of those vendors for their Server Breach Detection System (sBDS).

Network detection and response is emerging as one of the essential forensics-based threat and breach mitigation tools. In the reportOpens a new window , Gartner analysts Lawrence Orans, Jeremy D’Hoinne and Josh Chessman wrote, “Enterprises should strongly consider NDR solutions to complement signature-based tools and network sandboxes. Many Gartner clients have reported that NDR tools have detected suspicious network traffic that other perimeter security tools had missed.”

HillStone Networks’ sBDS solution helps in identifying suspicious activities through its AI-based behavioural modelling for known and unknown threats. It has a 4 million strong virus signature database, and supports HTTP, SMTP, IMAP, POP3, VOIP, NETBIOS etc., protocols.

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