The U.S. Army HRC had a big initiative in place to use virtualization in order to contain the burgeoning costs of maintaining large numbers of physical servers. One of the challenges in migrating physical servers to the virtual machine model is that all means of traffic visibility and access control that had existed between physical servers literally disappear. The U.S. Army networking team recognized that their traditional network and perimeter firewalls were rendered useless in this new virtual network model. So for this team, security was the barrier to adopting virtualization and by extension to implementing operational efficiency.

After some research, the U.S. Army HRC found Altor Networks and the company’s security solution purpose-built for virtual networks, and selected the Altor VF virtual firewall with integrated intrusion detection (IDS) capabilities as well as the Altor Center for centralized management and the optional reporting module. Read this case study to learn about the following benefits Altor VF provides: 

• Complete visibility to all traffic between VMs
• Enforce firewall access control across all VMs
• On-board Intrusion Detection (IDS)
• Compliance with mandates for separation of duties
• Minimal overhead to support full Virtualization ROI