12Port Horizon provides an agentless microsegmentation platform that isolates network workloads and restricts unauthorized traffic to prevent lateral movement of cyber threats across physical, virtual, and cloud environments. By visualizing east-west traffic and enabling rapid deployment, the platform enhances network security and minimizes the impact of potential breaches.
Funding
Funding not disclosed
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Problem
Traditional network security measures often fail to prevent the lateral movement of cyber threats within an organization's network. This allows attackers to spread from initial points of compromise to critical assets, leading to widespread damage and data breaches. The increasing complexity of modern IT environments, spanning physical, virtual, and cloud infrastructures, exacerbates this challenge.
Solution
12Port Horizon offers an agentless microsegmentation platform designed to isolate network workloads and restrict unauthorized traffic, effectively preventing the lateral movement of cyber threats. The platform visualizes east-west traffic patterns, enabling administrators to quickly identify and segment security risks. By implementing dynamic segmentation policies based on asset classification and tagging, 12Port Horizon ensures that workloads can only connect to authorized resources. This approach contains breaches, limits the impact of ransomware, and enhances overall network security posture. The platform integrates with existing identity providers, multi-factor authentication (MFA) services, and security information and event management (SIEM) solutions for a cohesive security strategy.
Target Audience
The primary target audience includes security professionals, network administrators, and IT managers in organizations of all sizes seeking to enhance their network security posture and prevent the lateral movement of cyber threats. Specific verticals include banking and finance, healthcare, energy and utilities, and small to medium-sized businesses.
Features
- Agentless architecture for simplified deployment and maintenance across physical, virtual, and cloud environments
- Dynamic policy management based on asset classification using hierarchical taxonomies and tagging
- Visualization of east-west traffic to identify and segment security risks
- Integration with leading identity providers, MFA services, and SIEM solutions
- Comprehensive change control with event logging, draft versions for assets and policies, and multi-level approval cycles
- Role-based access control for administrators to manage project- or location-based assets and networks
- Service request approvals to allow users to easily request time-based access to isolated workloads