Bromium Readies New Protected App Offer

For partners who got on board with Bromium’s new partner program, introduced almost 18 months ago, get ready for Protected App, the vendor’s latest offer being prereleased, the company announced Wednesday. Expect general availability in a couple of months.Protected App flips on its head what Bromium Secure Platform, the currently available product, does. Protect App puts a bubble, or virtual wall, around applications and IP, that access sensitive business data. Secure Platform stops attacks and protects endpoints using virtualization-based security to create a microvirtual machine to isolate each task and any malware it may contain. Bromium was founded on the principal that we allow bad stuff to happen within a micro VM and we completely isolate hardware from impacting the operating system in some way, shape or form,” Gavin Hill, vice president, products and strategy at Bromium, told Channel Partners. “Protected App pulls good stuff in a hardware-enforced containers.