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Webcast : Webinar: Virtually secure?
Analyst: Rachel Chalmers
Date: 12 Feb 2009
Resolution: 1024 x 768
Duration: 00:52:26
Filesize: 46.8 MB
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Executives, hearing claims of economic advantages in virtualization of resources, are pressing hard to make decisions about a technology that is entering the mainstream at a furious pace.
In the meantime, vendors are promoting several classes of products under the generic banner of ‘virtualization security.’ These classes include products that essentially provide situational awareness of virtualized assets and environments. They also include products that protect against more traditional threats that have become harder to track within virtual network segments — for example, by tracking network hosts or providing virtual network firewalling, intrusion detection and prevention, and so on. And finally, these products include offerings from vendors that have simply substituted a virtualized appliance — to be run on commodity hardware — for a hardware appliance.
To the C-level executives with a less-than-encyclopedic knowledge of the technology deployed in their organizations, this is extremely confusing. We believe that marketing hype is slowing adoption as these C-level types grapple with the big picture in an attempt to make reasoned and informed decisions about virtualization deployments. In this webcast, we have grouped these issues into three main buckets:
• Using virtualization for security
• Securing virtual infrastructure
• Virtual security products.
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