Startup Hopzero Launches Distance-Based Packet Security Service

Designed to thwart cyber-security breaches in large enterprise data centers, Hopzero provides a new layer of security protection to complement access-based security solutions. Most IT people don’t know anything about this, but there is yet another way to approach enterprise security outside of network-centric, workload-centric, file-centric, VM-centric and all the other methods. Companies can protect their data from going out from their storage and servers in an unauthorized fashion by—get this—monitoring hops. Yes, hops. No, we’re not talking about that important ingredient in beer or the way a rabbit travels. Hops in this context means the number of connections a data packet makes when traveling from one point to its ultimate destination via the internet. In networking, a hop is one portion of the path between source and its intended resting place. Data packets pass through bridges, routers and gateways as they travel between source and destination. Each time packets are passed to the next network device, a hop occurs.