All Posts Tagged With: "security"
Payment Card Industry Lack Virtualization-Specific Requirements For Security Audits
Good catch by Eric Siebert over at the Server Virtualization Blog: the Payment Card Industry’s data security standards (PCI DSS), requirements set forth by the major credit card players – Visa, Mastercard, American Express and Discover in order to protect credit card data, apparently don’t have any virtualization-specific requirements put into practice so far.
30Apr2008 | Robin Wauters | 0 comments | ContinuedIs Virtualization The Biggest Security Vulnerability In IT Today?
Joanna Rutkowska, the founder of security research firm Invisible Things Lab, reportedly described a new type of virtualization-based malware that could be used to take control of a machine running virtualization software. Because virtualization allows companies to store many virtualized software “images” of computers on a single physical machine, an attack like the one Rutkowska envisions would allow a hacker “not only to control a single machine but to siphon data from any virtual machine it contains”.
9Apr2008 | Robin Wauters | 2 comments | ContinuedThird Brigade Wants In On The Virtualization Security Conversation
Third Brigade announced a new licensing model designed to address the accelerated adoption of virtual environments and help customers achieve the lowest total cost of ownership for virtualization security. Third Brigade licensing now allows for an unlimited number of virtual machines to be protected per physical server.
7Apr2008 | Robin Wauters | 0 comments | ContinuedMcAfee Wants To Secure Virtualization
McAfee, one of the world’s leading security companies, today unveiled what it refers to as the industry’s first service designed to help organizations securely deploy virtualization technologies.
17Mar2008 | Robin Wauters | 0 comments | ContinuedVideo: Interview Greg Ness, VP Marketing with Blue Lane Technologies (VMworld Europe 2008)
This interview was recorded at VMWorld Europe 2008 in Cannes, France, and features Greg Ness, VP Marketing with Blue Lane Technologies.
5Mar2008 | Robin Wauters | 6 comments | Continued![[image]](http://mowser.com/img?url=http%3A%2F%2Fapi.mofuse.com%2Fimages%2Fbadges%2Fbadge_blue.png)
