A fully managed Intrusion Detection System (IDS) from Alert Logic has been updated to provide better protection for private and public clouds, and safeguard multiple clouds.
Alert Logic delivers its Threat Manager in the form of a Security-as-a-Service (just don’t call it SaaS, that acronym has been taken).
The company claims it has “the first fully managed threat management solution deployable in any elastic cloud infrastructure.”
Because Threat Manager is a service, it can deliver security for networks “in any cloud environment – irrespective of hypervisor and networking architecture – and still identify threats found in all network traffic, including VM-to-VM traffic,” Alert Logic alertly pointed out.
The idea is to see any network anywhere. “It doesn’t matter where a customer’s infrastructure resides. Threat Manager can now provide a unified view,” said Dave Colesante, senior vice president of product development and CTO with Alert Logic. “For the first time, customers don’t have to commit to a massive investment in multiple solutions and additional staff in order to gain a global view of the threats impacting their entire infrastructure.”
The new version includes autoscaling, integration with OpenStack and other cloud orchestration tools, and can monitor VM-to-VM traffic.
Alert Logic believes Threat Manager is a must-have for Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) service providers and is working with some of the major players to prep them for rollout.
Alert is growing strongly, recently announcing “GAAP revenues for the quarter ending March 31, 2013, of $9.5 million, up 45 percent from the first quarter of 2012, and up 10.6 percent from the fourth quarter of 2012,” the company said.
Gartner Calls Company ‘Cool’
Every spring, Gartner releases lists of Cool Vendors and the press releases start flying. Alert Logic alerted the media as to its cool status a cool 13 days ago.
Gartner called the company cool in the Security Services space. So why is Alert cool? “The company has built a scale-out, multitenant, cloud-based architecture to deliver security services from the cloud. For some services, an on-premises physical or virtual appliance is used as part of its architecture to aggregate and consolidate monitored data,” Gartner wrote. “Where needed, the on-premises component is monitored and managed as a lights-out, remotely managed service and includes patching, content updates, provisioning and deprovisioning.”
Even cool companies have their challenges. “When its offerings are bundled, Alert Logic's services do not map neatly into enterprise budget line items. To address this, Alert Logic now offers four independent products — Log Manager, Threat Manager, Web Security Manager and ScanWatch — all of which can optionally be combined with 24/7 monitoring from its security operations center,” Gartner said.
Edited by
Alisen Downey
