Virtualization Security

Virtualization Security focuses upon end-to-end security, integrity, auditability, and regulatory compliance for virtualization and clouds.

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Is the Software Defined Data Center the Future?

August 1, 2012
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VMware purchased Nicira, backed the Openflow Community, and is now touting software defined data centers (SDDC). But what is a software defined datacenter? Is it just virtualization or cloud with a software defined network? Or is it something more than that? Given heavy automation and scripting of most clouds, do we not already have SDDC?…

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Defense in Depth: Know Your Attack Surfaces

July 12, 2012
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The 6/28 Virtualization Security Podcast we spoke about attacks, defense in depth, and compliance with Davi Ottenhiemer and Matt Wallace. Davi and Matt just published a book on how to defend your virtual environment against attack. Unlike other books, this approaches the problem from the point of view of well know attacks. It even gives…

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Defense in Depth: Storage Security in a Hybrid Cloud

July 11, 2012
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Storage Security is not only about Encryption, which is just one aspect of Storage Security requirements for the virtual and cloud environments. It is also about increasing defense in depth and knowledge of what is touching your storage environment. As well as providing security around those touch points and to a great extent auditing and…

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News: Dell Transforms Virtualization Management with Quest Acquisition

July 2, 2012
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Dell buying Quest transforms the Virtualization Management market. Dell's presence in the market, customer base, and market reach combined with its product set will put Dell in a strong position to compete not only with VMware, but also to create serious pain for IBM, HP, CA, and BMC. Furthermore, the opportunities to integrate the various…

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Bromium unveils micro-virtualization trustworthy security vision

June 21, 2012
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One year after announcing that he and XenSource co-founder Ian Pratt were leaving Citrix to launch Bromium with former Pheonix Technologies CTO Gaurav Banga; Simon Crosby was back at the GigaOM Structure conference in San Francisco today to unveil Bromium's micro-virtualization technology together with its plans to transform enterprise endpoint security.

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Defense in Depth: Firewalls within the Virtual Environment

June 18, 2012
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The 6/14 Virtualization Security Podcast we spoke about firewall placement within the virtual environment as well as storage based defense in depth. While we covered Encryption on the 5/31 podcast, in the 6/14 podcast we covered other measures when dealing with storage (which will be part of a followup post). This conversation was slightly different…

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Defense in Depth: Encryption within the Virtual Environment

June 14, 2012
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The 5/31 Virtualization Security Podcast we spoke to High Cloud Security about encryption as a defense in depth, and where to place encryption within the virtual environment. This lead to an intriguing discussion about what is actually missing from current virtual environments when it comes to encryption. We can encrypt within each VM and we…

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Moving to the Cloud as a Service or as a Machine

June 11, 2012
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One of the decisions faced by anyone that wishes to have a cloud presence is what will be moved to the cloud, why, and whether or not there is a service that can be used instead of using virtual machines. Give The Virtualization Practice's case, we plan on moving our customer facing VMs to the…

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Cloud Security Alliance: STAR and other Initiatives

June 8, 2012
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The 5/17 Virtualization Security Podcast was an open forum on the Cloud Security Alliance initiatives, specifically the Security, Trust, & Assurance Registry (STAR). Which is "a free, publicly accessible registry that documents the security controls provided by various cloud computing offerings." The CSA has grown from a grass roots organization to a major player and…

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