Platform Alliances
Catbird is the first VMware partner to OEM vShield App™, VMware’s hypervisor-based application-aware firewall solution. VMware is the leader in virtualization and cloud infrastructure solutions that enable businesses to thrive in the Cloud Era. Customers rely on VMware to help them transform the way they build, deliver and consume Information Technology resources in a manner that is evolutionary and based on their specific needs. With 2010 revenues of $2.9 billion, VMware has more than 300,000 customers and 25,000 partners. The company is headquartered in Silicon Valley with offices throughout the world and can be found online at www.vmware.com.
VCE and Vblock™ Infrastructure Platforms help companies simplify, automate and transform their business. Catbird acclerates the adoption and use of Vblock systems with multi-function security for virtual infrastructure. Catbird’s continuous compliance monitoring also enables simple, consistent and speedy enforcement of standards such as PCI and HIPAA, while reducing audit preparation costs and related risks in VCE environments. Learn more www.vce.com
Business Partners
Forsythe offers Catbird’s vSecurity® software to bring PCI, HIPAA and SOX compliance to its customers who are moving to virtual and cloud-based infrastructure. Founded in 1971, Forsythe is an information technology infrastructure integrator. Forsythe helps complex organizations across all industries, including Fortune 1000 companies, optimize the cost and manage the risk of their IT while improving performance. Forsythe provides independent technology and business consulting services, technology leasing services, and value-added reseller services for all the leading technology product manufacturers. Headquartered in Skokie, Illinois, Forsythe employs nearly 900 people in 50 offices throughout the United States and Canada. Forsythe is privately held and 100-percent employee-owned. In 2010, Forsythe achieved its 40th consecutive year of profitability with revenues of $791 million. For more information, visit www.forsythe.com.
Carahsoft is the leading VMware partner serving the U.S. government. Carahsoft is a top-ranked GSA Schedule Contract holder and the largest government partner. Carahsoft delivers virtual infrastructure solutions to government agencies and military installations. Catbird is a key security solution in Carahsoft’s virtualization arsenal. www.carahsoft.com
KEYW provides mission-critical cybersecurity and cyber superiority solutions to commercial, defense, intelligence and national security agencies in the United States. Catbird’s vSecurity solution administers monitoring and activity analysis from within the virtualized components of the customer’s infrastructure for KEYW’s Project G, providing essential network monitoring and analysis, mitigation of attacks and forensic analysis. www.keywcorp.com
Industry Alliances
Catbird is an active contributing member of The Cloud Security Alliance which promotes the use of best practices for providing security assurance within Cloud Computing, and provides education on the uses of Cloud Computing to help secure all other forms of computing.
Catbird is an active participant in NIST's Cloud Security Working Group. NIST has been researching cloud computing for several years and has now published “A NIST Definition of Cloud Computing” (NIST Special Publication (SP) 800-145) which is becoming the de facto industry and agency guidance for secure cloud computing. www.nist.gov
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Catbird is the only certified CVE Compliant Hybrid Vulnerability and IDS/IPS solution in the market today. www.cve.org
Catbird is a member of The PCI Security Standards Council, which acts as a governing body developing and managing the formal set of PCI specifications – including those concerned with virtualization security. Catbird’s vSecurity solution integrates PCI policies into a compliance framework monitoring and enforcing PCI compliance in virtualized data centers to help customers meet established requirements and receive PCI certification. PCI Standards Council"
