From the Wires
Bromium vSentry Sets New Standard for Security Effectiveness
Feb. 20, 2013 05:02 PM
Bromium, Inc., a software solutions provider that makes enterprise
endpoints secure by design, today announced the first independent
security validation of its vSentryTM software for Windows
desktops. In test results just published by NSS Labs, Bromium vSentry
protected endpoints from every attack, confirming that Bromium vSentry
sets a new industry standard for endpoint security.
NSS Labs testing verified that Bromium vSentry managed to defeat and
automatically remediate all attacks, including 166 embedded exploits
delivered via email to Microsoft Outlook®, 153 drive-by attacks
delivered via HTTP and HTTPS, and 15 advanced attacks using the
Metasploit penetration testing toolset that incorporated advanced
obfuscation and evasion techniques in an attempt to bypass protection.
“This is the first public test in our new Threat Isolation group test,
using our new Security Stack Test Harness,” said Ken Baylor, Research VP
at NSS Labs. “The Stack Test Harness allows NSS to accurately determine
the level of protection offered by the industry’s leading security
products as measured against active penetration attempts by actual
threat actors. Tests conducted with Bromium vSentry showed that the
software was able to defeat 100 percent of the attacks launched against
an otherwise unprotected Windows 7 desktop.”
vSentry is built on the Bromium MicrovisorTM – a
security-focused hypervisor designed to automatically, instantly and
invisibly hardware-isolate each vulnerable Microsoft Windows task
in a micro-VM that is prevented from modifying Windows or gain access to
enterprise data or network infrastructure. Whenever a task isolated with
vSentry attempts to access files, networks, devices, the clipboard, or
interact with the user, the hardware interrupts execution and passes
control to the Microvisor, which enforces task- specific policies on a
strictly “need-to- know” basis.
The New York Stock Exchange is among the growing number of large
enterprise and government organizations that attest to the power of
vSentry.
“vSentry is an intriguing product because of its unique ability to
isolate and analyze the potential impact of very real attacks on your
network,” said Sunil Seshadri, SVP & Chief Information Security Officer
at NYSE Euronext. “It's almost like performing preventative forensics,
which is a very innovative capability, and incredibly valuable in
today's carefully guarded corporate networks.”
“The independent findings of NSS Labs, as well as the feedback we
receive from customers, all validate the unmatched protection of
Bromium’s hardware-enabled isolation technology integrated into the
innovative, lightweight design of vSentry,” said Franklyn Jones, Vice
President of Marketing at Bromium. “Bromium continues to deliver on its
vision of a profoundly more secure enterprise endpoint, while
simultaneously enabling IT to empower end-users to access the web and
untrustworthy content with a safe, non-disruptive user experience.“
About NSS Labs, Inc.
NSS Labs, Inc. is the world's leading information security research and
advisory company, with unparalleled expertise in the complex aspects of
information security across a wide range of technologies. CEOs, CIOs,
CISOs, and information security professionals from many of the largest
and most demanding enterprises rely on NSS Labs’ insight, every day. For
more information, visit www.nsslabs.com.
About Bromium
Bromium is a pioneer in trustworthy computing. Its products transform
the resilience of computer systems, making them secure by design. The
company’s founders led development of the Xen® hypervisor, and the
Bromium team is comprised of virtualization and security black-belts who
have dedicated their careers to advancing the state of the art in
systems architecture, security and performance. For more information,
visit www.bromium.com
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