Entries Tagged as 'Next-generation Data Center'
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
by Neil MacDonald | January 26, 2011 | 5 Comments
In one of my first posts as a blogger nearly 2 years ago, I discussed the potential for disaster if a compromise in the virtualization platform (hypervisor/VMM) occurred. Last year (I was intending to comment on this at the time, but it slipped my mind), I was reading the IBM X-Force 2010 Mid-Year Trend and [...]
Category: Next-generation Data Center Next-generation Security Infrastructure Virtualization Virtualization Security Tags: Best Practices, Cloud Security, Hypervisor Security, Information Security, Next-generation Data Center, Next-generation Security Infrastructure, Virtualization, Virtualization Security, VMware
by Neil MacDonald | December 7, 2010 | 1 Comment
I attended a breakfast presentation this morning given by Schneider Electric on the topic of facilities and energy intelligence. Essentially, they are tearing down the monitoring silos of energy, fire, lighting, data center power, HVAC and physical security monitoring to deliver a unified dashboard for facilities and energy management. As I listened to the presentation, [...]
Category: Information Security Next-generation Data Center Security Intelligence Tags: GartnerDC, Information Security, Next-generation Data Center, Next-generation Security Infrastructure
by Neil MacDonald | December 1, 2010 | 4 Comments
As organizations virtualize their data centers, information security has had to evolve to support this. The same will be true as data centers evolve to private clouds – security must evolve to support the needs of private cloud infrastructure. For most organizations, virtualization will provide the foundation and the stepping stone for the evolution to [...]
Category: Cloud Cloud Security Next-generation Data Center Next-generation Security Infrastructure Virtualization Virtualization Security Tags: Adaptive Security Infrastucture, Cloud Security, Hypervisor Security, Information Security, Next-generation Data Center, Next-generation Security Infrastructure, Virtualization, Virtualization Security, VMware
by Neil MacDonald | October 13, 2010 | 3 Comments
I’ve been out the last week travelling in preparation for Gartner’s US Symposium conference. I’ll be involved in multiple sessions (including interviewing Steve Ballmer). One presentation I’m giving is on how information security is evolving to become context aware and adaptive. Another presentation I am giving is on how cloud-based computing has the potential to [...]
Category: Cloud Cloud Security Next-generation Data Center Next-generation Security Infrastructure Virtualization Virtualization Security Tags: Adaptive Security Infrastucture, Cloud Security, Next-generation Data Center, Next-generation Security Infrastructure, Virtualization Security
by Neil MacDonald | September 21, 2010 | Comments Off
I’m here at the midsized enterprise summit in San Antonio. Earlier today, I presented on the same theme I will be presenting on at Gartner’s US Fall Symposium – the evolution of information security to address the security needs of private and public cloud-based services. In addition to the virtualization of security controls, one of [...]
Category: Cloud Security Next-generation Security Infrastructure Virtualization Virtualization Security Tags: Adaptive Security Infrastucture, Cloud Security, Next-generation Data Center, Next-generation Security Infrastructure, Reducing Complexity, Virtualization Security
by Neil MacDonald | June 17, 2010 | Comments Off
I’ve been absent from my regular blogging routine over the last week getting ready for the 16th annual US Gartner Information Security Summit to be held next week in Washington DC. I’ve already made appointments to talk with many of you directly at the event and I’m looking forward to meeting and discussing my areas [...]
Category: Information Security SharePoint Security Virtualization Security Tags: Information Security, Microsoft Security, Next-generation Data Center, Next-generation Security Infrastructure, Virtualization Security, Windows
by Neil MacDonald | May 18, 2010 | 1 Comment
In my research on Adaptive Security Infrastructure and Context Aware Security, I have concluded that future information security policy enforcement points must move security policy enforcement “up the stack”. As we move to virtualize our data centers and adopt cloud-based computing platforms, security policy can no longer be bound solely to physical attributes such as [...]
Category: Next-generation Security Infrastructure Virtualization Security Tags: Adaptive Security Infrastucture, Next-generation Data Center, Next-generation Security Infrastructure, Virtualization Security
by Neil MacDonald | March 12, 2010 | Comments Off
I blog quite a bit about virtualization and security. To address the security issues with datacenter virtualization, a large number of smaller, point solution vendors of virtualized security controls have appeared. This helps address the immediate issues (because the larger security vendors have been struggling with the potential disruption in embracing virtualization), but isn’t necessarily [...]
Category: Cloud Next-generation Data Center Next-generation Security Infrastructure Virtualization Security Tags: Adaptive Security Infrastucture, Cloud Security, Next-generation Data Center, Virtual Appliances, Virtualization Security
by Neil MacDonald | January 27, 2010 | 5 Comments
One of my frequent blog posting topics is virtualization security. Virtualization isn’t inherently insecure, but in many cases, it is being deployed insecurely. The latter is a result of the relative immaturity of our tools, processes, staff and service providers. Also, in many cases, information security isn’t proactively involved in the virtualization planning. Survey data [...]
Category: Next-generation Data Center Virtualization Security Tags: Best Practices, Next-generation Data Center, Next-generation Security Infrastructure, Virtualization Security
