New to Catbird?

Catbird is the pioneer and industry thought-leader in security and compliance for virtualized and cloud-based data centers. With one of the first products to market, Catbird has been at the frontlines of indentifying gaps in security and compliance introduced in the transition from physical to virtual (“P to V”) and helping to mitigate any potential resulting risks. Catbird’s vSecurity® product suite includes automated protection for virtual machines, virtual networks and the hypervisor management network. Catbird’s comprehensive compliance service and reporting is one-stop shopping for IT managers and auditors seeking assurance that their virtualized data centers stay compliant with third-party and in-house regulations.

Catbird assures a smooth transition from P to V and helps IT easily realize its vision of the data center of the future.

White Papers

Learn more about the security implications of virtualized environments and how Catbird addresses these.

The Top 10 Virtualization Security Mistakes (and How To Avoid Them) published by SANS


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Our Architecture

Catbird’s unique, stateless architecture is fully cloud-based, with a multi-tenant portal that serves both private and public clouds. It is a Service-Oriented Architecture, 100% plug-and-play; web-enabled; and architected to have minimal impact on the virtual environment itself.

Our Features

Catbird has the most comprehensive set of security and compliance features delivered from a single vendor. Our flagship vSecurity is built on industry standard, network-based, security technologies as well as patent-pending correlation technology.

Catbird vSecurity instantly identifies compromised assets, alerts appropriate personnel, and optionally quarantines offending virtual machines. No other vendor can deliver this level of breadth and depth in protecting security and compliance from within the virtual infrastructure.

Example features

  • Virtual network visibility, monitoring and flow analysis
  • Virtual machine tracking, analysis and quarantine
  • Policy monitoring and enforcement (Catbird TrustZones™) across the entire data center
  • Network access control (NAC) with automatic virtual machine quarantine
  • 24x7 vulnerability monitoring
  • IDS/IPS with zero-day threat intelligence
  • Network segmentation
  • Web-based management portal

Catbird vCompliance

Catbird offers the most comprehensive solution for monitoring and maintaining regulatory compliance for virtualized and cloud data centers. Its vCompliance™ monitors and audits more controls required by the leading regulatory standards organizations and supports the widest array of common security frameworks. vCompliance includes default policies for SOX, HIPAA, DIACAP and PCI; each policy is built upon Catbird controls which map to the appropriate compliance framework.