<p>Bromium has raised $40 million for its micro virtual machine (micro-vm) technology that traps malware and analyzes it for IT administrators to examine once an attack takes place. The oversubscribed Series C funding round was led by new investor Meritech Capital Partners, with participation from existing investors Andreessen Horowitz, Ignition Partners, Highland Capital Partners, and Intel Capital. The company has now raised $75.7 million since founded in 2010.</p><p>The company's technology bypasses traditional means of protection such as signature-based systems that have proven ineffective against malware and other types of attacks. Bromium takes a different approach capturing every web page, email message or instant message and storing them each in their own virtual machine. A customer may have hundreds of virtual machines running on their computer or Android device. If someone clicks a bad link, the micro-vm will keep it until the IT administrator views and disposes of it. The user is never bothered the whole process is invisible to them. The protection is all done in the background.</p><p>The Bromium technology gets baked deep into the device hardware. it support Intel-based hardware, Windows 7, 32-bit or 64-bit. It also supports Apple OSX. It protects against web, email (Outlook, Web-Mail and Lotus Notes), USB, instant messaging and third party or custom messaging apps.</p><p>The security does not yet work with Apple iOS devices. Apple is notorious for controlling its software stack. CEO Gaurav Banga said in an interview today that they have to work in the "right legal framework with the company." He would not further comment.</p><p><a href="http://techcrunch.com/2013/10/23/bromium-raises-40m-for-security-technology-that-traps-malware-and-limits-attacks/">Keep reading...</a></p>