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We’re excited to share news of another industry recognition to add to our trophy cabinet! Today, Business Intelligence Group announced…
Valtix (a Cisco company) Recognized As Finalist in 2023 Fortress Cyber Security Awards
For years legacy firewall vendors have received criticism from customers on operations in the cloud. This is why Valtix built…
Legacy Firewall Vendors: Having Somebody Else Operate It Doesn’t Fix What’s Broken
Recently, AWS announced the availability of VPC resource map. Resource map shows all of the resources in a VPC and…
AWS Resource Map vs. Valtix: Generic or Security-Specific Visibility
One of the impacts of the enterprise transition to cloud is confusion. From a security perspective, what no longer needs…
Why AWS GuardDuty Isn’t Enough for PCI Compliance
Recently, CSPM vendors have started partnering with CWPP vendors (here & here). This highlights enterprise demand that we at Valtix…
Why Enterprise Cloud Architects Are Prioritizing Secure Cloud Networking in 2023
Last month, we released the second annual Multi-Cloud Security Report, in which we surveyed 200 IT leaders from across the…
Ready or Not: Companies Plan for Multi-Cloud Environments, but Security Lags
Last week, Cisco announced publicly that it intends to acquire Valtix. For Cisco, the acquisition of Valtix supports and is…
Cisco’s Intent to Acquire: Our Journey and Why It Matters
Point of View From Valtix CEO and Co-founder, Vishal Jain When enterprises first experimented with the cloud, developers using what…
Current Practices Make Securing Cloud Networks Unsustainable
Organizations often encounter difficulties when IP ranges (or CIDR) overlap within their network. This could occur for several reasons: Mergers…
How to Secure Public Cloud Networks With Overlapping IP Ranges (CIDR)
This is part 2 of 2 on URL filtering. In part 1 we reviewed why URL and domain filtering is…
How to Effectively Implement URL and Domain (FQDN) Filtering on Egress in Public Clouds
As we kick off 2023, we wanted to explore important cloud security controls organizations should think about but might not…
Egress Filtering: The Most Important Cloud Security Control You’re Probably Missing
Native vs. Add-on Support and the Implications of Each Security administrators, like everybody else managing resources in the cloud, are…
Retrofitting Legacy NGFWs Into Terraform – It’s Not Easy
Securing Apps Requires a Different Approach In the cloud era, much of the security attention has focused on securing user…
Why Zero Trust for Public Cloud Apps Is Different Than Zero Trust for Users
We’re thrilled to announce a new addition to our trophy shelf! Today, Business Intelligence Group named Valtix a winner in…
Valtix Named Winner in 2022 Stratus Awards for Cloud Computing
This is the third blog in our series on GCP security. If you haven’t parts 1 & 2, definitely have…
Securing Apps on Google Cloud Platform, Part 3: Securing Apps With Valtix
The second blog in our series on GCP security is about "GCP security best practices". If you haven’t checked out…
GCP Security Best Practices
The Bar is Rising for Securing Workloads in the Public Cloud – Will it Affect Cloud Adoption? Enterprise cloud adoption…
The Bar is Rising for Securing Workloads in the Public Cloud
Secure access service edge (SASE) enabled companies across industries to move their computing processes from a centralized approach and closer…
Apps: The Key to the Expansion of SASE
Data centers are losing workloads to cloud computing. Where the workloads go, the money goes. By 2022, public cloud spending…
Legacy Network Security Leaders Must Reinvent Themselves for the Cloud Era
Data centers are losing workloads to cloud computing. Where the workloads go, the money goes. By 2022, public cloud spending…
Can Data Center Leaders Reverse Their Irrelevance In the Cloud Era?
Azure Microsegmentation Strategies Segmentation in the public cloud usually starts with network security groups (NSGs). In an Azure virtual network,…
How to Implement Network Segmentation at Scale in Azure
As CTO of Valtix, I’m having daily conversations with customers that continue to sharpen our vision for multi-cloud security. We’re…
Our Latest Release: Multi-Cloud Packet Streaming and Infrastructure Visualization Enables Enterprise to Get Serious About Securing Apps in the Public Cloud
Security in Google Cloud Platform (GCP) is straightforward, right? GCP gives you everything you need to secure your workloads? If…
Securing Apps on Google Cloud Platform, Part 1: Finding Your Missing Pieces
Note: This is an update to a previous blog on network security for PaaaS workloads published in 2019. The challenges…
Network Security for PaaS Workloads
In Part 1 of this blog, I described the purpose, need, and requirements of a controller. I also differentiated a…
The Cloud is Not Your Datacenter, Part 2: Building Self-Driving Security
As a co-founder at Valtix, I think a lot about control planes and more specifically, controllers. Recently, I’ve spoken to…
The Cloud is Not Your Datacenter: Self-Driving vs. Old-school Cruise Control, Part 1
Recent vulnerabilities and customer conversations have made a few things crystal clear in the last few months: There is no…
Every App Will Be Vulnerable. Security Needs to Be Automated Inside and Outside the App.
This is a detailed follow-up to our initial analysis of the Palo Alto Networks Cloud NGFW for AWS announcement. In this…
7 Critical Flaws of the Palo Alto Networks Cloud Next-Gen Firewall Service
Summary: Spring4Shell Zero-day POC leaked online, confirmed to be a critical vulnerability in Java Spring Framework. Dubbed Spring4Shell, as a…
Valtix Threat Response: Spring4Shell
This week, Palo Alto Networks (PAN) announced a new Cloud NGFW offering with Amazon Web Services (AWS) to provide PAN…
Palo Alto Networks, Welcome to the Party. You’re Underdressed.
Verizon DBIR continues to be an extremely valuable analysis of security incidents and breaches year over year (and some of…
7 Interesting Findings On Cloud Security From the 2021 Verizon Data Breach Investigations Report (DBIR)
In the datacenter, the practice of workload and application security hasn’t changed much over the years and it all started…
Best Practices: A Better Way to Identify Workloads (and Their Context) in the Cloud
“Our recent initiative was the result of LOG4SHELL, which I think made a lot of organizations take a hard look…
A Wake-Up Call: Why More Organizations Now Believe IDS / IPS Is Essential in the Public Cloud
We’ve done it again folks. We’re pleased to share that we won Gold in the 2022 Globee Cybersecurity Excellence Awards…
Valtix Wins Gold in the 2022 Globee Cybersecurity Excellence Awards
At the end of last year, Valtix released our first annual 2022 Multi-Cloud Security Report based on an independent research…
Multi-Cloud Security Report: Five Surprising Findings
Last year was a huge year for Valtix and I can’t wait to share more of our successes in the…
Valtix Secures Gold in ‘Cloud Security’ in 2022 Cybersecurity Excellence Awards
A few things are becoming clear as we near the end of the first month of the Log4Shell vulnerability: Attacks…
How to Detect and Respond to Log4Shell Exploits in AWS, Azure, GCP and OCI
This blog provides a follow up to our blogs from 12/13 and 12/14 detailing early observations and quick steps organizations…
Log4Shell Observations: Threat Actors Weaponize Log4j, New CVEs, Relentless Scanning, Make an Already Bad Situation Worse
A letter from Valtix CEO Douglas Murray Last week was an exhausting one for many in the tech world. CVE-2021-44228…
Log4Shell: Security Vendors Must Move Faster to Provide Updates
Monitoring of current Log4J attack vectors reveals that defense in depth provides effective mitigation as teams work to find, patch,…
Log4Shell Observations: Why Protecting Workloads with Native, Layered Defense Is Essential
Also, see our second blog titled: "Log4Shell Observations: Why Protecting Workloads with Native, Layered Defense Is Essential" LOG4J Overview When…
How to Virtual Patch LOG4J in AWS, AZURE, GCP, and OCI
For enterprises, security-related visibility in the cloud is critical. For many, especially as they try to gain an understanding of…
Not All Visibility Is Created Equal – What Are You Looking For?
Celebrating re:Invent 2021 and Our Year of Partnership This week kicks off AWS re:Invent 2021. We are incredibly excited about…
The 2021 AWS and Valtix Innovation Recap
Azure Gateway Load Balancer provides a way for customers to use service chaining concepts from the software-defined networking (SDN) world…
Valtix Announces Support for Service Chaining with Azure Gateway Load Balancer to Further Simplify Cloud Security
Simplifying compliance for public cloud applications that deal with cardholder data Meeting compliance standards is often seen as a major…
Valtix Achieves PCI-DSS Compliance To Support Users
10 Network Security Mistakes in AWS, and How to Fix Them In talking with end-user organizations, we’ve seen and heard…
Top 10 Network Security Mistakes in AWS
We’re Committing to Global Efforts Advocating for Cybersecurity and Online Safety during Cybersecurity Awareness Month October is Cybersecurity Awareness Month,…
Cybersecurity Awareness: Our Commitment to Security in the Cloud and Beyond
Another week, another exploit in public cloud infrastructure. What’s going on? Overall, what’s broken here are issues in what the…
How to Mitigate the OMIGOD Exploit in Minutes
In my last blog, I talked about how cloud enables business agility. How cloud-first organizations can focus on the app…
Cloud brings a new set of security problems and benefits. But like everything in cloud, we can only solve by focusing on the App.
Once we realized that we had moved on to the next round of the 2021 SINET16 Innovator Award, anticipation and…
Valtix Wins Distinguished 2021 SINET16 Innovator Award
Sometimes the smallest of features makes a world of a difference. This post details the recent Amazon VPC routing enhancements…
Making East-West Security More Robust on AWS with More Specific Routing (MSR)
Valtix 2.9 is a significant release that revamps how organizations can secure their public cloud IaaS and PaaS deployments. And,…
Valtix 2.9 Brings 5-Minute Deployment (yes, really) And Deep Multi-Cloud PaaS Visibility & Control
Cloud Network Security - How to Get the Benefits With a Lot Less Cost Ask an accomplished photographer, “what’s the…
Getting the Benefits of Cloud Network Security
Valtix Shortlisted for the Category, Best Security Innovation in a SaaS Product Wow, when we thought things couldn’t get any…
Valtix Included in the 2021 SaaS Awards Shortlist
Valtix Named Top 10 Baby Black Unicorn in Prestigious Awards for Cybersecurity Companies We are honored and excited to be…
Valtix Named Winner in 2021 Black Unicorn Awards
Our perspective on the latest Google Cloud announcement Last week, Google Cloud Platform and Palo Alto Networks announced a GCP IDS based…
Do You Care About Network Security in Public Cloud? You Certainly Should.
Valtix Takes Home ‘Security Startup of the Year’ from the The Globee Awards We are on a roll… I am…
Valtix Takes Home ‘Security Startup of the Year’ from the The Globee Awards
Cloud Security Innovation Recognized: Valtix Is Named a Finalist in Fortress Cyber Security Awards 2021 It’s been an exciting 2021…
Valtix Named a Finalist in Fortress Cyber Security Awards 2021
Valtix Brings Flexibility in Cloud Network Security Architecture Another quarter, another update to the Valtix cloud security service. As always,…
Valtix Brings Flexibility in Cloud Network Security Architecture
Valtix Wins ‘Next-Gen in Cloud Security’ in Global InfoSec Awards 2021 It’s been a great couple of weeks - first…
Valtix Wins ‘Next-Gen in Cloud Security’ in Global InfoSec Awards 2021
Great Companies Are Built on Great Leadership – Valtix CEO Doug Murray Honored with 2021 Stevie Award I am proud…
Great Companies Are Built on Great Leadership – Valtix CEO Doug Murray Honored with 2021 Stevie Award
Valtix Named a 2021 Gartner Cool Vendor Today is another big day at Valtix. We’re proud to announce that Gartner…
Valtix Named a 2021 Gartner Cool Vendor
One Rocketship to Another This week I start a new adventure. After 5+ years at Tanium, I’ve joined Valtix as…
One Rocketship to Another
Valtix Reboots Network Visibility for Public Clouds Public clouds are enabling a new application architecture consisting of IaaS (compute, networking,…
Valtix Reboots Network Visibility for Public Clouds
Valtix Expands Support for AWS Gateway Load Balancer to New Regions Last week AWS released support for Gateway Load Balancer…
Valtix Expands Support of AWS Gateway Load Balancer to New Regions
Cloud Visibility Insights for Public Clouds The perennial challenge in security is finding what is insecure and securing it quickly…
Cloud Visibility Insights for Exfiltration in Egress Traffic
Summary HashiCorp’s Terraform has become a popular method for automating deployment of workloads on public clouds and on-premises environments. Security…
Valtix Releases Official Terraform Provider to Automate Network Security into Your DevOps Pipeline
Summary On 08-Dec-2020, FireEye revealed{: target="blank"} that a state-sponsored adversary stole red team tools used by their internal security researchers…
Response to FireEye Red Team Tool Breach
Welcome AWS to the Cloud-Native Network Security Club Last week, AWS announced the AWS Network Firewall - a managed network…
Welcome AWS to the Cloud-Native Network Security Club
Getting Started with Valtix using AWS Gateway Load Balancer (GWLB) Outline This guide will show you how to secure your…
Secure Your Cloud Workloads Against Exfiltration – Getting Started with Valtix using AWS Gateway Load Balancer
Valtix Introduces Support for AWS Gateway Load Balancer and URL Filtering Categories (powered by BrightCloud) A persistent need in securing…
Valtix Introduces Support for AWS Gateway Load Balancer and URL Filtering Categories (powered by BrightCloud)
Valtix, SaaS, and Cloud Service Providers: How Our Innovation is Built on Innovation Recently, I was asked to provide a…
How Our Innovation is Built on Innovation
Valtix releases Google Cloud support with DevOps integration Summary Valtix continues to follow the cloud-native pattern of building features with…
Valtix releases Google Cloud support with DevOps integration
Version 2.1 of Valtix Cloud Security Service brings a massive transformation in helping customers secure their applications running in public…
Valtix Introduces Data Exfiltration Protection for Cloud Storage and URL-based Controls
In these unprecedented times enterprises are facing new challenges. Over the past few weeks Valtix interviewed several different organizations to…
Valtix Releases a Cloud-Native Approach to Securing Applications Running in Public Clouds in Less Than One Hour
Valtix is the industry’s first cloud network security service to bring automation, speed and scale to cloud network security, has…
Valtix Achieves SOC2 Type 2 Compliance
Discover Your AWS Applications and Enable Advanced Network Security in a Few Clicks with Valtix Network Security-as-a-Service Valtix is driven…
Enable Advanced Network Security in a Few Clicks with Valtix Network Security-as-a-Service
After five-and-a-half incredible years at Palo Alto Networks, I joined Valtix to lead their product management and go-to-market team. Joining…
Network Security in Public Clouds: Day Zero Happens Everyday in Cloud
Gartner: The Future of Network Security is in the Cloud - We Agree! Gartner recently published a compelling read -…
Gartner: The Future of Network Security is in the Cloud – We Agree!
How the new Amazon VPC Ingress Routing Enhancement Improves Life in the Cloud Security for More of the Cloud…
How Amazon VPC Ingress Routing Enhancement Improves The Cloud: Win-Win!
Cloud-based data centers are changing the way end-user organizations protect their workloads and data. As service providers move a broad-reaching…
How and Why on FPGA-based AWS EC2 F1 instances for Cloud Network Security
If you’ve been keeping up with the developments at Valtix lately, you probably already know about our many integrations with…
Valtix Simplifies Log Management with AWS FireLens Integration
Valtix announces the availability of the Cloud Risk Assessment Report, which spots and highlights network security weaknesses and vulnerabilities –…
Announcing Valtix Cloud Risk Assessment Report
In the ancient history of network security, there existed a time when network security was simple and straightforward. Then apps…
The Cloud Gets High Performance Security "Hardware"
Not that it's news, but the public cloud is the new enterprise data center. Traditional enterprises have adopted rapidly, often…
Cloud Network Security – Discover, Deploy, Defend
Valtix announces the Valtix Cloud Transit with AWS Transit Gateway support; enables seamless network security across VPCs Valtix will expand…
Valtix announces the Valtix Cloud Transit with AWS Transit Gateway support;
Valtix is exhibiting for the first time at VMworld 2019 in San Francisco. Come meet us at New Innovator Pavilion…
Take Valtix Cloud Transit to VMware Cloud on AWS
For this week’s Black Hat USA 2019 and DEF CON, Valtix CTO Vijay Chander wrote an E-book titled “TLS Ramifications…
Laying Down the Hammer on TLS 1.3
Today is an exciting day for our company – we announced our network security platform and a $14m funding round.…