Several companies are using this year’s RSA
Conference to highlight their focus on virtualization security.
With the show just two days under way, a number of vendors had made
announcements with an eye toward protecting
virtual environments. Among these companies were Symantec, Trend Micro and
Hewlett-Packard, all of which announced additions to their virtualization road maps.
In Symantec Endpoint Protection 12 (SEP 12), the company has added the
ability to whitelist baseline images, randomize scans and updates, and
automatically identify and manage virtual clients.
“[Virtualization] is becoming a lot more mainstream, and the security
requirements are also changing from what is required to secure or lock down a
physical server to what it takes to lock down a virtual server,” said
Ashish Mohindroo, senior director of product marketing at Symantec, in a
conversation with eWEEK before the conference. “It has become more
complex, and we believe your virtual infrastructure servers have become more
susceptible to attacks because now you’re doing virtual sharing between virtual
images, now you’re encrypting these virtual images. How you manage these
virtual images — and also how you minimize resource impact on your server.”
The product, which is powered by Symantec’s cloud-based reputation
technology and includes a number of other capabilities around data protection,
is still in beta.
For more, read the eWeek article: Security Companies at RSA Talk Virtualization.
