Fireglass Launches From Stealth With Channel-Friendly Threat Isolation Platform

After 13 years working at Check Point Software Technologies, Guy Guzner decided the security industry needed something new to help it get ahead of attackers, instead of reacting to them.

"I wanted to even the playing ground here and come up with something that will bring the advantage back to the defender. This is why I founded Fireglass," Guzner said.

Launching from stealth Wednesday, Tel Aviv-based Fireglass offers an enterprise network security solution designed to isolate Web activity from the network, assuming all of it is bad. The Fireglass Threat Isolation Platform acts as an "air gap" between potential attacks from Web, email and documents, and the endpoint and Web applications, according to the company. This isolation approach is different from Secure Web Gateways, which for the most part rely on signatures to separate good traffic and Web activity from bad.

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The launch from stealth comes just a few weeks after Fireglass landed $20 million in Series A funding, which was led by Lightspeed Venture Partners, Norwest Venture Partners, Singtel Innov8 and Trusteer co-founders Mickey Boodaei and Rakesh Loonkar. That funding is being put toward R&D as well as building out sales and market support, the company said at the time.

Guzner, who is CEO of Fireglass, said the startup will focus its go-to-market strategy on the channel. Guzner said he knows the value of the channel from his time at Check Point, San Carlos, Calif., where he was head of security products, and will pursue that same channel-focused strategy at Fireglass.

"We are planning to be a channel-based company. We truly believe in the scale and opportunity that the channel can bring," Guzner said.

The solution is designed to be seamless in installation, management and user experience, Guzner said. It is agent-less and is available on-premise or as a service, requiring only a proxy on the endpoint to route traffic through the platform.

"We designed the product right from the beginning with the channel in mind. … It will be very easy to deploy, manage and sell the value of the product. [Those were] the guidelines right from the beginning when we started," he said.

Guzner said Fireglass hasn't signed any reseller partners just yet, but it is talking to some of the biggest security solution providers in the U.S. and Europe, and is targeting partners who have a strong focus on security. He said the company is in the process of signing them up for its formal partner program, which he expects will launch shortly.

The Fireglass product will be generally available in spring 2016, the company said.