StillSecure and Montego Networks announced a partnership that brings a higher level of security to virtual environments. Through the integration between the Montego Networks HyperVSecurity technology platform and StillSecure security solutions, virtual-to-virtual environments can now be inspected and secured from network attacks.

Most security products cannot detect malicious or harmful traffic within a virtual-to-virtual traffic flow without issues relating to latency and efficiency. Traffic has to be routed out of the virtual environment to a non-virtual, standalone appliance, where it is inspected and then routed back to the virtual network. The integration between StillSecure Strata Guard and Montego's HyperVSecurity architecture allows StillSecure customers to leverage the benefits of the Montego Networks HyperSwitch -- the virtual security switch. Deploying Strata Guard as a virtual machine within the Montego environment protects virtual data centers, which is an important enabler for environments with numerous virtualized servers and applications. Integration with other StillSecure solutions is already under way.

"StillSecure has been on the cutting edge of securing virtual environments for a number of years and we're excited to build out our partnership as we launch Montego's efforts to secure virtualized network environments," said John Peterson, CTO and Co-Founder of Montego Networks. "We're excited by the strong interest that our HyperVSecurity architecture and HyperSwitch product is having in the market because it validates our approach to integrate network policy enforcement and access control with a high-availability virtual security switch."

"Virtualization provides many benefits to the data center including minimizing costs, rack space, as well as the time and effort it takes to deploy new hardware and applications," said Alan Shimel, Chief Strategy Officer at StillSecure. "Through our partnership with Montego Networks, StillSecure has the ability to work within the hypervisor to provide IDS/IPS, vulnerability management, and NAC in virtual-to-virtual environments. We look forward to working with companies like Montego who understand the importance of virtualization and can help us bring security to the virtual world."