Zenarmor

Zenarmor is a provider of computer and network security services. These include a range of network security products that help companies maintain proper packet visibility and safeguard data. The company's platform is a centralized cloud-based platform with full-context policy management to provide users visibility and control wherever they might need to access a network. Zenarmor is headquartered in Sunnyvale, California, and was founded in 2017. The company was first known as Sunny Valley Networks; it rebranded to Zenarmor in June 2023.

Zenamor's platform is intended to be an enterprise-grade security solution for any network, including home and business networks capable of stopping threats in real time; deploying on any network; demonstrating a plug-and-play ability in order to scale with the network; and offering artificial intelligence-powered, cloud-based web controls and application access. This includes real-time classification for millions of websites, with unknown sites categorized in minutes.

The platform is an appliance-free technology that allows organizations or individuals to launch firewalls and network protections on local networks and to scale to multi-cloud deployments, without the need for proprietary or specific resources or computers. The platform is intended to offer local inspection for different applications, including management controls for all policies and network deployments, regardless of location or device.

Other features of Zenarmor's platform include the following:

• L2-L7 packet filtering
• Advanced network analytics
• Application control
• User and device-based filtering
• Policy-based filtering and QoS
• Web filtering and security
• DNS Security
• Built-in full TLS inspection
• RESTful API

The Zenarmor NGFW feature of Zenarmor's platform is its firewall protection, intended to be deployed with zero latency and without needing to backhaul data packets; its single-pass architecture is intended to process packets once, and for all security controls. This offers a consistent security framework at all levels of a company's software and user stack.

The Zenarmor platform is developed to be deployed from the cloud, on-premises, and virtually or on bare metal. Deployment possibilities also include a home network security solution, a business network security solution, an enterprise network security solution, and a SASE network security solution.

For home, Zenarmor emphasizes the ability of the platform to identify thousands of communication protocols and data attributes in order to detect cyber threats and malicious or unwanted traffic, offering real-time network visualization, per-connection detail, and anomaly visualization. The home deployment offers the platform's Zenarmor firewall product, with cloud-based management interfaces for control over home network security. And Sunny Valley Networks suggests the product can work well for home networks as it does not require enterprise-class hardware and is capable of running on older PCs.

For business network security, Zenarmor emphasizes the Zenarmor firewall, which is able to scale with larger deployments and offer enterprise-grade content filtering technology to help businesses deploy security capabilities for detecting and blocking malware and other threats. Furthermore, through the firewall, users are able to create granular access policies for cloud services, including Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud, Dropbox, Facebook, and Twitter. This includes the ability to create custom categories for blacklisting and whitelisting websites.

For enterprise security, Zenarmor emphasizes the network's ability to scale with the size of an enterprise—offering centralized policies independent of IP addresses, port numbers, locations, and devices. The company also gives the ability to create context-aware policies that are automatic to all IT assets and locations. Enterprise users can aggregate and visualize all security telemetry, with features including network views down to per-connection details, network visualization in real time, visual anomaly spotting, and integration with an enterprise's preferred SIEM. Sunny Valley Networks' platform offers enterprises visibility with instant inspection engines, centralized management, and open APIs for integration and third-party tools.

For secure access service edge (SASE), Zenarmor emphasizes the platform's ability to provide cloud-based network security capable of delivering technology that is purpose-built for integration in SASE deployments. This includes centralized instant deployments, fast updates, and cloud-based easy management. While Zenarmor offers a software-defined, appliance-free portal to allow SASE deployments to control for all policies and network deployments. And for SASE, the Zenarmor product includes a variety of features:

• Firewall as a Service (FWaaS)
• Secure Web Gateway
• Cloud-based real-time threat intelligence
• DNS and Wi-Fi Security
• Encrypted Threats Prevention
• Policy-based filtering and QoS
• Multi-cloud environment integration
• User, group, and device-based filtering
• Cloud-based management, deployment, and updates