Combining GuardTower’s Proactive Defense Platform and Aviz Networks’ Generative AI Innovation to Revolutionize Cybersecurity

GuardTower, a leader in proactive cybersecurity solutions, and Aviz Networks, an innovator in generative AI and open-source networking, today announced a strategic partnership to develop a next-generation network cybersecurity tool. By combining GuardTower’s deception, detection, and deterrence platform with Aviz’s advanced AI technologies, the collaboration aims to redefine cybersecurity in an increasingly complex threat landscape.

Aviz Networks, recognized as one of CRN’s Stellar Startups for 2024, brings its AI-driven platform, Copilot, alongside networking tools like SONiC, to deliver intelligent, scalable solutions. Its data-centric AI Networking Unpacked stack integrates seamlessly with diverse network infrastructures, enabling flexibility across ASICs, switches, NOS, clouds, and large language models (LLMs). This partnership aligns perfectly with Aviz’s mission to empower open, cloud-first networks that prioritize choice, control, and cost savings.

GuardTower: Proactive Security for Evolving Threats
Emerging from a year-long stealth mode campaign, GuardTower now delivers an intelligence-driven cybersecurity platform that leverages three key components for comprehensive network protection:

• AI Decoy: Deploys indistinguishable decoys across networks to mislead attackers, capturing threat data without compromising sensitive assets.

• AI Strongpoint: Uses generative AI to analyze attacker behavior, identify threat patterns, and predict future incursions.

• AI Strikeforce: Implements proactive defense mechanisms to delay, disrupt, and neutralize attackers, providing security teams crucial time to respond.

GuardTower’s platform seamlessly integrates into existing security ecosystems, creating a 360-degree detection and response system. Its ability to operate across multiple VLANs without significant reconfiguration positions it as a breakthrough in network deception technologies.

Driving Innovation in Cybersecurity

The partnership between GuardTower and Aviz Networks will address emerging cybersecurity threats, including challenges posed by quantum computing and coordinated attacks targeting national infrastructure, corporate data, and institutional stability. By blending GuardTower's human ingenuity with Aviz’s AI optimization, the collaboration aims to move the cybersecurity market from reactive defense to proactive threat prevention.

“This partnership marks a pivotal step in evolving cybersecurity beyond traditional defense strategies,” said John Santoyo, CEO of Tradewinds Networks, parent company of GuardTower.  Mr. Santoyo continued, “By integrating GuardTower's proactive threat mitigation with Aviz’s AI-driven innovations, we are setting a new benchmark for protecting critical digital assets.”

Aviz Networks CEO, Vishal Shukla, added, “Our collaboration with GuardTower reinforces our shared commitment to delivering groundbreaking solutions that safeguard complex network environments in real time.”

About GuardTower:
GuardTower delivers a next-generation cybersecurity platform that combines AI-driven proactive threat prevention with traditional reactive defense strategies. Partnering with industry leaders like Intel and Celestica, GuardTower serves clients ranging from U.S. municipalities to global health organizations, including endpoint protection for Ghana’s healthcare network funded by GAVI. Adhering to NIST and MITRE frameworks, GuardTower provides deception, detection, and deterrence in real time, complementing existing security tools to combat evolving cyber risks and ensure robust network protection.

About Aviz Networks:
Aviz offers AI Networking Unpacked, a data-centric stack which is vendor agnostic and supports multiple ASICs, switches, NOS, clouds, LLMs, and integrates seamlessly with AI and security applications. It is designed for open-source networking and works with existing network infrastructures, ensuring a seamless transition. Aviz empowers customers to choose their solutions without vendor lock-in, offering an enterprise-grade experience across a multi-vendor ecosystem. Aviz is your partner in building open, cloud, and AI-first networks that prioritize choice, control, and cost savings.