Virtualization Vendors Are Not In The Security Business?
Simon Crosby, CTO of Citrix/XenSource made a pretty bold statement yesterday that has some people agreeing with his position and others disagreeing. In an interview with searchsecurity.com he publicy stated that virtualization vendors are not competent to try and secure ... Read More
Netflow visibility inside Virtual Environments
I blogged on this topic a few weeks ago but given the huge interest in this topic I’ve decided to blog on it again. One of the major concerns in virtualized environments is the lack of visibility of the communication ... Read More
Securing Virtual Environments Through Partnerships
I’m back from the RSA 2008 Security Show in San Francisco and it was another great year of business development activity for security vendors. It felt like there was a decent amount of end user customers at the show but ... Read More
NetFlow and Visibility in the Virtual Environment
With so much talk about securing communications within the virtual environment and potential hypervisor based attacks, we sometimes forget about the visibility problem within the virtual environment. Today's blog is about just that. Visibility! We've all probably heard the saying, ... Read More
Montego Networks spotted on radar
Montego Networks has been flying under radar for the past year and this week increased its elevation just enough to be seen on the virtualization industries radar detector. Montego Network’s announcement of securing virtual network communications between VM’s has everyone ... Read More
Virtual Environments will be more secure than their physical counter parts by 2010
Montego Networks Prediction: Virtual Environments will be more secure than their physical counter parts by 2010. Neil McDonald of Gartner reported in 2007 that throughout 2009, 60% of virtual environment deployments would be less secure than their physical counter parts ... Read More
Network World Focus on Security in 3/17/08 issue
It looks like virtual security is getting some attention this week as seen on the front page of Network World. There are multiple articles in this issue that talk about the security challenges in the virtual environment. I suggest everyone ... Read More
High Availability Security In Your Virtual Environment
How many times have 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 ... Read More
Leveraging VMWare for Firewall Consolidation – MSSPs
Virtualization has become a powerful way to reduce IT spend as it relates to servers as we all know. It allows data centers to conserve rack space, power consumption, server cost and a number of other things. Everyone that has ... Read More
VMSafe = A Safer More Secure VMWare Environment
New VMware VMsafe™ Technology Allows the Virtual Datacenter to Be More Secure Than Physical Environments Twenty Industry-Leading Security Vendors, Including CheckPoint, McAfee and Symantec, Endorse VMsafe Technology and Announce Plans to Build Interoperable Security Solutions Cannes, FRANCE, February 27, 2008 ... Read More
