TMCnet News
vArmour Named SINET 16 Innovator Award Winner For Second TimevArmour, the leading data center and cloud security company, today announced the Security Innovation Network (SINET) has selected the company as a SINET 16 Innovator for the second time in the last 3 years. The top 16 winners from the competition were selected from a pool of over 130 applicants from nine different countries, representing a range of solution providers of cutting-edge technologies to address cybersecurity threats and vulnerabilities. "I am proud and excited to recognize vArmour as being selected as one of 16 companies that were selected as winners of the SINET 16 Innovator award and in particular because this is the second time they have received this award. Every year the competition continues to be more competitive than previous years," said Robert Rodriguez, SINET's Chairman and Founder. "SINET believes that one of the best ways to advance innovation is to increase awareness that technologies exist to better society." vArmour provides customers with integrated security services to visualize application communications and optimize policy modeling through our application controller. This intelligence powers vArmour's application services fabric to protect critical applications and workloads on-premises and across multi-clouds. vArmour's application-centric architecture is simpl yet highly scalable and addresses our customers' hybrid cloud security challenges. "It is a high honor that vArmour was named as one of SINET's Top 16 Innovators alongside such an innovative and talented group of security experts," said Tim Eades, vArmour CEO. "Receiving this award a second time validates our strategy around application-centric security policies. This approach has been successful for our customers and we believe this to be the way forward for the industry." Entries were evaluated by the SINET Showcase Steering Committee, comprising of 100 cybersecurity professionals, including chief security information officers from leading organizations worldwide, experts in government intelligence and defense agencies, and venture capital firms. Companies were assessed on their ability to solve real world cybersecurity challenges and advantages over competitive solutions. The process also considered each company's ability to succeed based on the state of their capital and leadership. About vArmour vArmour, the data center and cloud security company, delivers agentless integrated security services to auto-discover application communications, optimize policy modeling, and protect critical applications and workloads across multi-clouds. Based in Mountain View, CA (News - Alert), the company was founded in 2011 and is backed by top investors including Highland Capital Partners, Menlo Ventures, Columbus Nova Technology Partners, Work-Bench Ventures, Allegis Capital, Redline Capital, and Telstra (News - Alert). The vArmour DSS Distributed Security System is deployed across the world's largest banks, telecom service providers, government agencies, healthcare providers, and retailers. Partnering with companies including AWS, Cisco (News - Alert), HPE and VMware, vArmour builds security into modern infrastructures with a simple and scalable approach that drives unparalleled agility and operational efficiency. Learn more at www.varmour.com.
View source version on businesswire.com: http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20171212005391/en/ |
