While mobile and smartphone security is the hot topic of the moment among virtualization security gurus, plenty of other virtualization security topics demand IT's attention right now. At the recent RSA Security Conference in San Francisco, the interest in virtualization security ran high - with good reason. Different IT departments are at different points on their virtualization journeys, of course, and some are still thinking about security in the old physical world terms, analysts say.

New research has revealed the security holes in virtualised environments

FlyingPenguin has posted a good critique of my earlier post about Amazon’s ISO 27001 certification. Here’s a succinct correction:

Greetings from Gartner’s Application Architecture, Development, and Integration Summit. There are around 900 people here, and the audience is heavy on enterprise architects and other application development leaders.

At the Computerworld Premier 100 IT Leaders conference in March, one CIO stood up to express his unease about the security of a virtual infrastructure that has subsumed more than half of his company's production servers. Two other IT executives chimed in with their own nagging worries.

Here's the biggest challenge I see in Cloud deployment as the topic of security inevitably occurs in conversation:...

Global IT security and data protection firm Sophos today announced that it has formed a global alliance with Virtual Computer, a leader in the distributed desktop virtualization management market. Virtual Computer's NxTop customers now have the option of selecting Sophos Anti-Virus profiles to help proactively safeguard their virtual environment from suspicious activity, viruses, and other malware threats. ...

Fortinet is introducing virtual versions of four of its physical appliances that are designed to protect traffic as it moves between virtual machines.

Configuring Active Directory-integrated security for ESXi hosts is easy; managing the license, a bit more complicated.

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