2011 ; 4 years ago 2011 10 19 1 founders oded horovitz steve weis headquarters palo alto california u.s. area served worldwide key people oded horovitz ceo co founder steve weis cto co founder todd thiemann vp marketing carl waldspurger advisor website www.privatecore.com privatecore is a venture backed startup located in palo alto california that develops software to secure server data through server attestation and memory encryption . the company s attestation and memory encryption technology fills a gap that exists between data in motion encryption tls email encryption and data at rest encryption disk encryption tape encryption by protecting data in use random access memory . privatecore memory encryption technology protects against threats to servers such as cold boot attacks hardware advanced persistent threats rootkits bootkits computer hardware supply chain attacks and physical threats to servers from insiders . privatecore was acquired by facebook a deal that was announced on 7 august 2014 . contents 1 history 2 technology 3 products 4 references 5 external links history edit privatecore was founded in 2011 by security veterans from vmware and google with seed funding from foundation capital . 2 3 privatecore virtualizes physical security and enables service providers and enterprises deploy servers processing sensitive data in outsourced environments while maintaining security around data in use . 4 the company s memory encryption technology has been spurred by a number of industry trends including the increasing sophistication of hackers a larger number of servers in outsourced environments larger amounts of sensitive data being placed in persistent memory and x86 virtualization technology which can increase the environment attack surface . privatecore was acquired by facebook a deal that was announced on 7 august 2014 . 5 6 technology edit privatecore s focus is securing data in use on x86 servers . the company has taken advantage of recent microprocessor innovations including larger microprocessor caches and hardware cryptographic acceleration technology that enable more effective methods of encrypting memory while maintaining acceptable application performance . the technology approach goes beyond previous academic research efforts such as tresor . privatecore assumes that the only element that need be trusted in a system is the central processing unit cpu . the firm uses trusted platform module tpm chips and intel trusted execution technology intel txt to provide remote server attestation . privatecore also supports the cryptographic hardware acceleration provided by intel aes ni technology . privatecore technology is positioned as being most applicable to outsourced or hosted environments where the enterprise can not have trust in the compute infrastructure . 7 products edit the privatecore vcage product portfolio comprises vcage manager and vcage host . vcage manager validates the integrity of x86 servers running linux as well as the vcage host . vcage host installs on bare metal servers and provides a hardened hypervisor based on kvm that can secure server random access memory ram with aes encryption . vcage host does this by loading a secure hypervisor into cpu cache and acting as a gateway to encrypt memory paging in and out between the cpu cache and ram . vcage memory encryption leverages the kvm hypervisor but also has the potential to support other hypervisors . vcage host supports existing kvm management tools . vcage supports a number of use cases including creating openstack trusted computing pools as well as protecting x86 servers in co location and bare metal cloud environments . vcage manager and vcage host became generally available on 11 february 2014 . 8 references edit privatecore.com whois dns & domain info domaintools . whois . retrieved 2016 03 21 . crunchbase privatecore june 6 2012 privatecore angellist privatecore june 6 2012 privatecore dark reading robert lemos january 31 2013 the physical security factor with cloud providers reuters kurt wagner august 7 2014 facebook acquires security startup privatecore to better protect its data centers techcrunch sarah perez august 7 2014 facebook buys secure server technology provider privatecore startupbeat startupbeat editor june 25 2012 privatecore has built a private computing platform that gives users a high level of data security online or off gcn john moore march 12 2014 how to lock down data in use and in the cloud external links edit official website physical privilege escalation and mitigation in the x86 world talk given by the founders at cansecwest 2013 retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title privatecore & oldid 729635178 categories computer security companiescryptographycompanies based in palo alto californiacompanies established in 2011software companies based in the san francisco bay area2011 establishments in californiahidden categories pages using infobox company with unsupported parameters 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