Security Vendors Show Innovation at RSA

In the second part of our earlier eSecurity Planet coverage of the announcements at RSA, here’s a link to our coverage of the smaller vendors:

On Wednesday, we mentioned that Cloud Computing security is the front-and-center focus of RSA 2010 and we took a look at the announcements from some of the biggest players. In this part of our RSA coverage, we’re bringing you announcements from some of the other innovative vendors.

First up, the company that won the “Innovation Sandbox” award, beating out 10 other finalists is Altor Networks for their VF3.0 virtual firewall.[1] The VF3.0 virtual firewall brings traditional security services – such as policy enforcement, intrusion detection, and high-performance stateful inspection – to the virtual world and in the cloud. It’s an interesting product and the tie-in to virtualization is top-of-mind for attendees; however, let’s not forget that the Innovation Sandbox focuses on entrepreneurial ventures, so post-acquisition players that are also developing and shipping firewalling solutions in the virtualization space (e.g. ThirdBrigade, recently acquired by Trend Micro) are de facto out of the running.