Integrating virtual-aware security technologies

Integrating virtual-aware security technologies

Integrating virtual-aware security technologies

Date: Mar 02, 2011
There are a growing number of virtual aware security technologies that promise to help you keep data moving between virtual machines safe. This video is intended to help you to evaluate the technologies and how best to integrate them into your existing network topology for a complete view of activity, vulnerabilities and remediation options. Key areas of emphasis include:
  • How virtualization technology is affecting security, and virtualization vendors' responses
  • Considerations for virtual firewalls and network segmentation
  • Tactics for using IDS/IPS with virtualization
  • Strengths and weaknesses of virtual vulnerability management

About the author:
Dave Shackleford is director of risk and compliance and acting director of security assessments at Sword and Shield Enterprise Security Inc., and is a certified SANS instructor. He was formerly CSO at Configuresoft Inc. and CTO at the Center for Internet Security, and has worked as a security architect, analyst, and manager for several Fortune 500 companies. In addition to these roles, he has consulted with hundreds of organizations for regulatory compliance, as well as security and network architecture and engineering.

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