Security In The Virtual World
 
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Is Virtual Security Technology A Prime Target For Acquisition?

2008-05-15 02:12:08 by John Peterson in Security In The Virtual World
 
...security blog world! Simon Crosby of Citrix/XenSource stated in his podcast that he felt the virtualization vendors like VMWare and Citrix didn't have the competence to address the security challenges of virtualization and Chris Hoff blogged about it saying that the statement is a cop-out and that they should do more in securing their...
 
Tags: security, security challenges, virtual security startups, virtualization vendors, virtualization, acquire security technologies, virtual security technology, reflex security, acquisition
 
 
 
 
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Virtualization Vendors Are Not In The Security Business?

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2008-05-09 15:44:33 by John Peterson in Security In The Virtual World
...security.com he publicy stated that virtualization vendors are not competent to try and secure virtual environments and therefore looks to 3rd party security companies to solve these concerns Listen to the podcast here Who are these 3rd party security companies? Well, there are a number of startup companies such as Montego Networks , Blue...
 
Tags: security, security tools, deliver security tools, virtualization vendors, acquire, acquire security technology, security functionality, security controls, security concerns
 
 
 
 
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Netflow visibility inside Virtual Environments

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2008-04-22 18:07:24 by John Peterson in Security In The Virtual World
...security, monitoring and capacity planning. Its hard to secure what you cant see or dont know about and its hard to determine when you need to add more resources when you dont have a clear picture into what applications are consuming them This problem is widely known and as a result there are a few companies that are starting to pop up that...
 
Tags: virtual network communication, communication, virtual network, virtual environment communication, netflow, network communication, visibility, network, enable network visibility
 
 
 
 
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Securing Virtual Environments Through Partnerships

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2008-04-13 16:06:19 by John Peterson in Security In The Virtual World
...information to a Behavioral Analysis Engine After these various systems do what they do with the data, they are also able to respond back to the frame work via an API called NSCP (Network Security Control Protocol) to instruct it to tack appropriate action. This could be an IDS system invoking a firewall policy or a Behavioral Analysis system...
 
Tags: virtual, network, virtual network communication, networks, montego networks plans, virtual datacenter, montego networks, virtual environment, security
 
 
 
 
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NetFlow and Visibility in the Virtual Environment

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2008-03-31 23:21:54 by John Peterson in Security In The Virtual World
...information you are now better equipped with the right level of knowledge of the environment to start putting security controls in place. The problem is that it doesnt exist in the virtual switch provided by VMWare, Citrix, etc So, how can we do Netflow in the virtual environment so that we can have "Virtual Behavioral Based Analysis"? Well...
 
Tags: virtual, virtual environment, environment, virtual infrastructure, virtual switch, virtual firewall, virtual security product, physical world, world
 
 
 
 
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Montego Networks spotted on radar

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2008-03-28 12:40:02 by John Peterson in Security In The Virtual World
...security vendors to do the same thing (VM to VM). Now, Im the CTO of Montego Networks, so my comments here are a bit biased but also first hand. So, when I tell you that its been a great announcement, I truelly feel it has. Everyone I have spoken with in the analyst and press community thus far has embraced the idea of security vendors...
 
Tags: montego networks, montego, montego networks technology, montego networks announcement, announcement, virtual communication, communication, party security vendors, security vendors
 
 
 
 
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Virtual Environments will be more secure than their physical counter parts by 2010

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2008-03-22 18:29:17 by John Peterson in Security In The Virtual World
...security concerns within virtualized environments and feel companies will start to address those concerns by 2009. I also believe that by the end of 2009 the majority of companies virtualizing will have built virtualized environments that are more secure than their physical counter parts Now, you may be thinking Im either crazy or that Im...
 
Tags: security concerns, application security concerns, virtual, concerns, server, virtual server, virtual appliances, security infrastructure due, lift
 
 
 
 
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Network World Focus on Security in 3/17/08 issue

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2008-03-18 17:22:36 by John Peterson in Security In The Virtual World
...information that has been floating around lately. I've heard many people say that Reflex, Blue Lane and Catbird provide security between virtual machines. This isn't true. What these vendors do is provide "monitoring" between virtual machines as stated on page 48 of Network World's article on virtual security. What monitoring gives you in the...
 
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High Availability Security In Your Virtual Environment

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2008-03-12 21:41:15 by John Peterson in Security In The Virtual World
...security products been the blame for network outages? Many right If something goes down and the network team gets a call, they immediately point their finger at the Firewall. If a user can't access something on the network, its the Firewall. If something is running slow on the network, guess what Its the firewall And with Intrusion Prevention...
 
Tags: virtual, physical, physical relay, physical network, virtual security products, security products, network, virtual network, virtual environment