The 12Port Platform

At 12Port, we provide a network security platform centered on microsegmentation. Our software visualizes internal east-west network traffic and segments workloads across physical, virtual, and cloud environments. The platform facilitates a division of a physical network on multiple virtual areas with limited requirements to communicate between each other in order to restrict the traffic between identified virtual segments. An essential part of Zero Trust architecture, the product builds micro-perimeters around small groups of assets behind the network firewall.

The product empowers infrastructure owners to restrain malicious activity inside the network, to limit lateral movement across network devices, to contain breaches in the isolated areas, to reduce attack surface to a small number of exposed assets, and to minimize the potential impact of cyber attacks.

At the same time, the product maps and preserves the functional traffic to the workloads served by the network assets. In addition to permanently enabled communication channels, configurable approval workflows allow managers to temporarily join IT administrators to the requested virtual segments, just in time, to perform necessary maintenance activities while keeping these same workloads closed, outside of these approved time windows.

The platform features an agentless architecture to simplify deployment and maintenance. The separation of execution and control planes enables a single point of view to multiple isolated on-premises and cloud locations. Traffic control enforcement utilizes native operating system functions to avoid negative performance impact on the network traffic. Build-in integration with Entra ID, Microsoft Active Directory, SAML IdP, LDAP as well as numerous MFA providers such as TOTP, Radius enabled services, Yubikey, Duo Security, and e-mail based MFA allows for safe identification of users for configuration, change control, join request and approval purposes as well as for tagging network assets to trigger automatically applied micro-segmentation policies.

The 12Port platform is the answer to secure and identifiable microsegmentation.