FireEye & Avinti

Another exciting use of Virtualization. Network Access Control.

"FireEye technology uses virtual machines as a sort of crash test dummy for network security. Potentially damaging network traffic is sent into the virtual machines where the impact can be analyzed. If suspicious traffic is revealed, a responsible course of action can be taken to stop the network infection. No actual machines are harmed in this process and the damaged virtual machine is fully restored for reuse."

More details at Fireye website.

Avinti iSolation Server is trying to do the same for email protection.


Nice to see that naive ideas like VM honeypots are maturing into commercial products.