Cloud Computing: Bromium vSentry 2.0 focuses on collaboration and mobility
June 13, 2013
Grazed from TechTarget. Author: Gabe Knuth.
Bromium announced the latest release of its micro-virtualization desktop security tool, vSentry 2.0, with improvements around mobile connections, document sharing and Intel support. Bromium vSentry is a unique approach to desktop security that uses micro-virtualization to isolate application threads to protect the host from malware. The product treats everything as untrusted while allowing only certain functions on the host to interact with the thread. In this manner, it can allow malware to execute fully without ever actually compromising a system — and still gives users full access to the sites and files they need.
Building on the 1.0 release, Bromium has reduced the size of its code base by developing the entire tool around Xen. Prior to this, there were other components that were needed to provide a certain level of functionality, but Xen has progressed to the point where it can now be used for everything vSentry needs to do. With Xen, vSentry can take advantage of processors that support Intel’s VT-d solution, which enables the isolation and management of device access to virtual machines (VMs)…
Making secure mobile connections
This release focuses on two main factors: secure mobility and safe collaboration. Bromium’s emphasis on secure mobility aims to protect endpoints on untrusted networks (which, one could argue, are all non-data-center networks). According to Bromium, it’s increasingly possible that so-called "captive portals," like those shown when the user connects to hotel or airport Wi-Fi, can introduce malware to a system before it even connects to the Internet. That means that companies routing all Internet traffic through the corporate VPN could deal with compromised machines right out of the gate…