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Internet Research Group Publishes Research Study On The
Evolution of Security and Virtualization
Los Altos, CA
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March 20,
2008
– Internet Research Group (IRG) today announced the release of its
latest report on the changing landscape of security and virtualization “VMsafe,
Virtualization and Security.”
At the end of
last month at its European User Conference in Cannes, France, VMware
announced its new security initiative to protect applications running in
virtual machines called VMware VMsafe including endorsements from twenty
security industry vendors. The Internet Research Group used the occasion of
this launch to prepare the “VMsafe, Virtualization and Security” report as
an in-depth look at the VMsafe approach to securing the virtualized data
center, its ability to assist customers with securing valuable
infrastructure and the potential incorporation of VMsafe by third party
security vendors.
“Security is a
critical aspect of data center operations whether or not the center is
virtualized,” noted Peter Christy, co-founder of IRG. “An in-depth
examination of virtualization shows that virtualization has a big impact on
security (pro and con) and yet the existing virtualization customers seem
remarkably unconcerned – fewer than 5% have added some
virtualization-specific security offering. The $64,000 question is whether
this market inattention to security will turn out to be the Achilles’Heel of
virtualization.”
This report
addresses the following questions:
1. What is
VMsafe and why does it matter?
2. What are
the security issues unique to virtualized server environments?
3. What are
the issues with VMsafe?
4. What
security issues remain?
5. When will
security solutions incorporating VMsafe become available?
The twenty
vendors which endorsed VMsafe at the VMware announcement are: Altor
Networks, Apani, Blue Lane, Catbird, Cenzic, Check Point, F5, Fortinet, IBM,
Imperva, McAfee, Reflex Security, RSA, Secure Computing, Shavlik, Sophos,
Symantec, Trend Micro, Tripwire and WebRoot. Other large technology
companies involved with server virtualization include Cisco, Citrix and
Microsoft.
You can download a
table of contents for this study
by clicking here.
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About Internet Research Group --
The Internet Research Group (IRG)
provides marketing and strategy research reports and consulting services,
specializing in areas related to the interaction of networks and
applications.
Editor’s note:
John Katsaros is available to
provide background discussion, quotes or references for articles related to
network infrastructure and security.
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