Entries Tagged as 'Next-generation Data Center'
by Neil MacDonald | January 17, 2012 | Comments Off
DevOps seeks to bridge the development and operations divide through the establishment of a culture of trust and shared interest among individuals in these previously siloed organizations. However, this vision is incomplete without the incorporation of information security, which represents yet another silo in IT. Breakdowns in communications and processes across development, operations and security [...]
Category: Application Security Next-generation Security Infrastructure Tags: Adaptive Security Infrastucture, application security testing tools, Defense-in-Depth, DevOpsSec, Next-generation Data Center, Next-generation Security Infrastructure, Security-Summit-NA
by Neil MacDonald | December 9, 2011 | 1 Comment
I’m just back from Gartner’s US 2011 Data Center Summit held this week in Las Vegas. In my previous post, I talked about information security vendor’s concerns on the potential impact of the Eurozone crisis on information security spending. Here, I want to outline the top security-related issues and concerns that I discussed with attendees [...]
Category: Cloud Cloud Security Next-generation Data Center Next-generation Security Infrastructure Virtualization Virtualization Security Tags: Cloud Security, GartnerDC, Hypervisor Security, Information Security, Next-generation Data Center, Next-generation Security Infrastructure, Virtualization Security, vShield
by Neil MacDonald | December 9, 2011 | Comments Off
I’ve just gotten back from Gartner’s Data Center Conference in Las Vegas. Like Gartner’s recent US Symposium and European Symposium, the conference had record attendance and interest in information security was high. I’ll place the top security-related issues from non-vendor attendees in a separate post. On the vendor side, I had several information security providers [...]
Category: Information Security Next-generation Data Center Tags: GartnerDC, Information Security, Next-generation Data Center, symposium
by Neil MacDonald | August 27, 2011 | Comments Off
VMware quietly disclosed it has acquired PacketMotion in this recent blog post by Dean Coza of VMware. We identified PacketMotion as a cool vendor in Gartner in this 2009 research for clients. Essentially, PacketMotion uses standard Intel-based hardware appliances (as well as a virtualized probe implementation that runs inside of virtualized environments) to deliver full [...]
Category: Next-generation Security Infrastructure Virtualization Security Tags: Adaptive Security Infrastucture, Context-aware Security, Next-generation Data Center, Next-generation Security Infrastructure, VMware, vShield, vSphere
by Neil MacDonald | August 24, 2011 | 1 Comment
As I research into the future of adaptive security infrastructure, I am convinced that the future of information security lies in software, not hardware. If you think about it for a bit, most of information security policy enforcement is in the form of software already – it’s just embodied (entombed?) in physical hardware. Unfortunately, the [...]
Category: Cloud Cloud Security Next-generation Security Infrastructure Virtualization Security Tags: Adaptive Security Infrastucture, Cloud Security, Context-aware Security, Next-generation Data Center, Next-generation Security Infrastructure, Virtual Appliances, Virtualization Security
by Neil MacDonald | July 15, 2011 | Comments Off
1) Treating Cloud as one thing. At a minimum, clarify whether you are talking about SaaS, PaaS, or IaaS – and whether you are talking about public or private cloud implementations. 2) Assuming Cloud always means Public Cloud Cloud is a computing style, not a location. 3) Citing Security as the number one issue to [...]
Category: Cloud Cloud Security Virtualization Virtualization Security Tags: Cloud Security, Next-generation Data Center
by Neil MacDonald | May 24, 2011 | Comments Off
I’m attending Symantec’s worldwide analyst conference in New York City today (24 May 2011). Symantec’s CEO, Enrique Salem, kicked off the morning with a discussion of Symantec’s role in the changing world of IT and information security. Enrique called out five megatrends that are challenging our preconceptions about the role of IT and information security: [...]
Category: Cloud Cloud Security Information Security Next-generation Security Infrastructure Virtualization Virtualization Security Tags: Cloud Security, Information Security, Next-generation Data Center, Next-generation Security Infrastructure, Security-Summit-NA, Virtualization Security
by Neil MacDonald | April 12, 2011 | Comments Off
We talk about the need for analytics and business intelligence to help the business make better business decisions, It is time to bring this same technology to the information security department. What we need is actionable, prioritized and risk-based insight from this sea of information. I’ll take it a bit further. There are some emerging [...]
Category: Cloud Security Next-generation Security Infrastructure Security Intelligence Tags: Adaptive Security Infrastucture, Beyond Anti-Virus, Cloud Security, Defense-in-Depth, Next-generation Data Center, Next-generation Security Infrastructure
by Neil MacDonald | March 22, 2011 | Comments Off
I’ve spent the past day and a half attending Microsoft’s Management Summit in Las Vegas. From my perspective the announcement that will affect the most enterprises from a security perspective was a change in licensing related to Forefront. Some history — in 2010, Microsoft reorganized the Server and Tools Business Unit placing the Forefront Endpoint [...]
Category: Cloud Cloud Security Endpoint Protection Platform Microsoft Microsoft Security Next-generation Data Center Virtualization Virtualization Security Tags: Cloud Security, Endpoint Protection Platform, Hyper-V, Microsoft, Microsoft Security, Next-generation Data Center, Virtualization, Virtualization Security, Windows
by Neil MacDonald | March 9, 2011 | 3 Comments
The cloud isn’t one thing, so securing the Cloud won’t be one thing either. The industry has settled on a layered framework for understanding, comparing and selecting cloud-based services. Gartner’s model has these high-level layers (with subcategories in each layer): Infrastructure as a Service (compute, storage, etc) Platform as a Service (middleware-like services such as [...]
Category: Cloud Cloud Security Virtualization Virtualization Security Tags: Cloud Security, Defense-in-Depth, Next-generation Data Center, Virtual Appliances, Virtualization Security
