type private industry computer software founded 2010 founders gaurav banga simon crosby ian pratt headquarters cupertino california united states area served worldwide key people ian pratt ceo brent remai cmo simon crosby cto manish kalia svp of product management rahul kashyap chief security architect head of research richard murray svp of engineering website www.bromium.com bromium is a venture capital backed startup based in cupertino california that works with virtualization technology . bromium focuses on virtual hardware to eliminate everyday computer threats like viruses malware and adware . 1 contents 1 history 2 technology 3 products 4 references 5 external links history edit bromium was founded in 2010 by gaurav banga who was later joined by former citrix and xensource executives simon crosby and ian pratt . 2 early employees of the company included vikram kapoor kiran bondalapati preet paul anushree pole vadim dmitriev andy southgate jacob gorm hansen and gianni tedesco . the company has raised a total of 75.7 million in three rounds of venture funding . the rounds raised 9.2 million 26.5 million and 40 million respectively with venture firms such as andreessen horowitz ignition partners lightspeed venture partners highland capital partners intel capital and meritech capital partners . 3 4 5 bromium earned the title of cool vendor by gartner a technology research and advisory company in 2014 . 6 bromium was named by cnbc in the disruptor 50 in 2013 . citation needed in february 2014 the company published information about bypassing several key defenses in microsoft s enhanced mitigation experience toolkit emet by taking advantage of the inherent weakness of its reliance on known vectors of return oriented programming rop attack methods . 7 technology edit bromium s technology is called micro virtualization and it protects computers from malicious code execution initiated by the end user including rogue web links email attachments and other files . 8 its proprietary virtualization technology relies on hardware isolation for protection . 9 it is implemented by a late load hypervisor called a microvisor which is based on the open source xen hypervisor . the microvisor is similar in concept to a traditional hypervisor that s installed on a server or desktop s operating system . traditional vms are full versions of an operating system complete with full suites of applications but the microvisor uses the hardware virtualization present on desktop processors to create micro vms which are specialized virtual machines tailored to support a specific task . 10 when a new application is opened a link is clicked on or an email attachment is downloaded the microvisor creates a micro vm tailored to that specific task with access to only those resources required to execute . 11 12 the microvisor enforces the principle of least privilege by isolating all applications and operating system functions within a micro vm from interacting with any other micro vm the protected desktop system or the network the protected desktop is embedded in . 13 the architecture specifically relies on intel vt to guarantee that task specific mandatory access control mac policies will be executed whenever a micro vm attempts to access key windows services . 14 since micro vms are hardware isolated from each other and from the protected os trusted and untrusted tasks can coexist on a single system with mutual isolation . 15 the microvisor s attack surface is extremely narrow making it virtually impenetrable by making exploits prohibitively expensive to execute . 16 a report from nss labs details penetration testing of the bromium architecture which achieved a perfect score in defeating all malware and expert human attempts at penetration . 17 products edit vsentry 1.0 was available for windows 7 . vsentry requires an intel processor with vt x and ept . 18 vsentry 2.0 became available in june 2013 and offers protection when users are exchanging documents . 19 bromium live attack visualization and analysis lava provides the ability to collect attack data detected within a micro vm for analysis . 20 lava provides in depth forensic capabilities to determine the intent of a malware attack without risk of exposure and identifies the vectors targets and methods of new attacks in real time . 21 it supports structured threat information expression stix ; an emerging xml standard for threat information . 22 references edit david marshall q & a interview with simon crosby bromium micro virtualization . june 22 2012 . retrieved march 17 2014 crunchbase bipul sinha october 10 2012 bromium techcrunch leena rao june 22 2011 virtualization and cloud security startup bromium raises 9.2 m from andreessen horowitz and others techcrunch anthony ha june 20 2012 bromium raises 26.5 m for security through micro virtualization techcrunch alex williams bromium raises 40m for security technology that traps malware and limits attacks . october 23 2013 . retrieved february 28 2014 gartner . cool vendors 2013 . retrieved february 28 2014 dark reading kelly jackson higgins researchers bypass protections in microsoft s emet security tool . february 23 2014 . retrieved february 28 2014 metz cade june 20 2012 . simon crosby inverts your brain with tiny virtual machine . wired . retrieved february 28 2014 . chao jude september 5 2013 . bromium promises unbreakable protection for the modern enterprise . enterprise networking planet . retrieved september 5 2013 . harris derrick june 20 2012 . how bromium lets bad guys in and still keeps data safe . gigaom . retrieved february 28 2014 . harris derrick june 20 2012 . how bromium lets bad guys in and still keeps data safe . gigaom . retrieved february 28 2014 . metz cade june 20 2012 . simon crosby inverts your brain with tiny virtual machine . wired . retrieved february 28 2014 . prickett morgan timothy june 20 2012 . bromium twists chip virty circuits to secure pcs and servers . the register . retrieved february 28 2014 . madden brian september 20 2012 . what bromium is and how it works . brianmadden.com . boulton clint july 25 2012 . startups develop next generation cyber defenses . the wall street journal . retrieved february 28 2014 . o gara maureen june 18 2013 . bromium reduces a pc s attack surface . sys con . retrieved february 28 2014 . flood gary march 13 2013 . bromium founders detail life after xen . informationweek . retrieved february 28 2014 . knuth gabe september 20 2012 . coolest news of the week bromium releases vsentry adds lava a realtime threat analysis feature . brianmadden.com . retrieved march 17 2014 . knuth gabe june 12 2013 . bromium vsentry 2.0 focuses on collaboration and mobility . searchvirtualdesktop.com . retrieved march 17 2014 . ricknas mikael june 11 2013 . bromium aims to protect users on the move with upgraded virtualization software . idg news service . retrieved february 28 2014 . o gara maureen june 18 2013 . bromium reduces a pc s attack surface . sys con . retrieved february 28 2014 . ricknas mikael june 11 2013 . bromium aims to protect users on the move with upgraded virtualization software . idg news service . retrieved february 28 2014 . external links edit official website retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title bromium & oldid 673170438 categories computer security companiescompanies based in cupertino californiasoftware companies based in the san francisco bay areahidden categories pages using infobox company with unsupported parametersall articles with unsourced statementsarticles with unsourced statements from august 2014 navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages edit links this page was last modified on 26 july 2015 at 16 09 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; 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