Entries Tagged as 'Virtualization Security'
by Neil MacDonald | March 16, 2013 | Comments Off
The idea of “sandboxing” potentially malicious content and applications isn’t new but interest in this type of approach on Windows desktops is growing. Further, the increasing variety of virtualization and abstraction techniques available on Windows create isolation that can be used to provide security separation – aka “sandboxing”. Given the innovation around virtualization techniques [...]
Category: Beyond Anti-Virus Endpoint Protection Platform Next-generation Security Infrastructure Virtualization Virtualization Security Tags: APTs, Beyond Anti-Virus, Browser Security, Defense-in-Depth, Endpoint Protection Platform, Lockdown, Virtualization, Virtualization Security, Whitelisting, Windows
by Neil MacDonald | November 5, 2012 | 2 Comments
I still see people getting bogged down in rather meaningless arguments as to whether or not firewalls will be virtualized. They will (and, in fact, are). The bigger trend is the shift from proprietary hardware to software running on commodity hardware (in almost all cases, x86). That’s the big shift. Whether or not a given [...]
Category: Cloud Cloud Security Next-generation Security Infrastructure Virtualization Virtualization Security Tags: Adaptive Security Infrastucture, Best Practices, Defense-in-Depth, Next-generation Security Infrastructure, Software Defined Security, Virtual Appliances, Virtualization Security, VMware
by Neil MacDonald | September 6, 2012 | 3 Comments
I’ve been researching the intersection of virtualization and security since 2007 and find myself continually running into these myths pertaining to virtualization and security: 1) Myth: Physical is better than virtual. Reality: Define “better”. Software and virtual appliance-based security controls are more adaptable to the rapidly changing infrastructure requirements of a modern, virtualized data center. [...]
Category: Cloud Security Virtualization Security Tags: Adaptive Security Infrastucture, Next-generation Security Infrastructure, Virtual Appliances, Virtualization Security, VMware
by Neil MacDonald | May 21, 2012 | Comments Off
I’ve been absent from my typical blogging routine getting my material finalized for two Gartner upcoming US-based summits in June 2012. The first is Gartner’s Infrastructure and Operations Management Summit being held in Orlando the week of June 4th. This conference is focused on infrastructure and operations solutions for managing desktops, servers, and mobile devices [...]
Category: Application Security Beyond Anti-Virus Big Data and Information Security Cloud Security Information Security Next-generation Security Infrastructure Security Intelligence Virtualization Security Tags: Adaptive Security Infrastucture, Application Security, application security testing tools, Beyond Anti-Virus, Cloud Security, Context-aware Security, DC-Summit-NA, Next-generation Data Center, Next-generation Security Infrastructure, Security-Summit-NA, Virtualization Security, VMsafe, VMware, Whitelisting
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 | October 24, 2011 | 1 Comment
Last week I attended Gartner’s US Symposium conference in Orlando. With 8,000+ attendees (25% of which were CIOs) and at least 1,000 more analysts, vendors and support staff, you can imagine it was quite a scene. In addition to three presentations, I had more than 30 fantastic one on ones with attendees over the four [...]
Category: Application Security Beyond Anti-Virus Cloud Cloud Security Information Security Microsoft Security Next-generation Security Infrastructure Virtualization Virtualization Security Tags: Adaptive Security Infrastucture, Beyond Anti-Virus, Cloud Security, Context-aware Security, DC-Summit-NA, Endpoint Protection Platform, Information Security, Microsoft Security, symposium, Virtualization Security
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 | June 23, 2011 | Comments Off
I’m here at the Gartner Information Security summit on the fourth and final day. We had a record number of attendees – at least 1700 by my estimate. Attendees have the ability to book one on one conversations with the analysts and my schedule was completely full. One of the conversations with a client was [...]
Category: Information Security Next-generation Security Infrastructure Virtualization Tags: Adaptive Security Infrastucture, Beyond Anti-Virus, Endpoint Protection Platform, Information Security, Next-generation Security Infrastructure, Security-Summit-NA, Systematic Workload Reprovisioning, Virtualization Security
by Neil MacDonald | June 17, 2011 | 3 Comments
One of the toughest problems in information security is addressing advanced intrusions that have bypassed traditional security controls and now reside undetected on enterprise systems. With financially motivated attacks and state-sponsored “advanced persistent threats” both on the rise, intrusions can remain undetectable for extended periods of time. We have reached a point where our systems [...]
Category: Beyond Anti-Virus Next-generation Security Infrastructure Virtualization Virtualization Security Tags: Adaptive Security Infrastucture, APTs, Beyond Anti-Virus, Defense-in-Depth, Next-generation Security Infrastructure, Security-Summit-NA, Virtualization, Virtualization Security, Windows
by Neil MacDonald | June 16, 2011 | Comments Off
It sounds counterintuitive, but today’s advanced threat environment requires new approaches to the ongoing security and management of server and desktop workloads. The trouble with Advanced Persistent Threats is that, by definition, they have evaded our traditional network and endpoint security controls and now reside undetected in our IT Systems. How many advanced intrusions will [...]
Category: Beyond Anti-Virus Next-generation Security Infrastructure Virtualization Virtualization Security Tags: Adaptive Security Infrastucture, APTs, Beyond Anti-Virus, Defense-in-Depth, Next-generation Security Infrastructure, Security-Summit-NA, Virtualization, Virtualization Security
