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As you virtualize your enterprise data center and begin the journey toward cloud computing, you’ve undoubtedly seen how traditional security that works well to protect physical devices can lead to gaps when applied to virtual machines (VMs). Gartner Research shows that the resultant uncertainties of using legacy security in a virtualized environment may actually hold organizations back from deploying and benefiting from cloud computing technologies. VMware and Trend Micro have joined forces to address this critical challenge through a new approach to virtualization and cloud computing security. We've tightly integrated Trend Micro's next-generation security technologies and threat management expertise with VMware products and programs. Our goals for this joint offering are high—to help enterprises prevent data breaches and business disruptions, maximize server consolidation rates, and increase operational efficiency and cost savings, while ensuring compliance.
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  • From Secure Virtualization to Secure Private Clouds
  • Neil MacDonald | Thomas J. Bittman
  • 13 October 2010
  • As enterprises move beyond virtualizing their data centers to build private cloud-computing infrastructures, security must evolve to support this. While the fundamental principles of information security don't change, how enterprises provision and deliver security services must change. This research outlines the foundational capabilities that will be required from enterprise security infrastructure to secure private cloud computing.
Key Findings
  • Policies tied to physical attributes, security policy enforcement points embedded within physical appliances, and the usage of air gaps for security will inhibit private cloud adoption.
  • Virtualization of security controls is an important step in enabling secure private clouds, but other capabilities are required.
  • Context enablement, including application, identity and content awareness, will be critical to supporting secure private cloud computing.
  • Securing a private cloud can't be just about technology, or it will fail. Changes to processes and a shift in mind-set will also be required.
  • The need for security must not be overlooked or "bolted on" later during the transition to private cloud computing.
Recommendations
  • Change your mind-set about information security to think of it as a set of adaptive services that are delivered via programmable infrastructure and controlled by contextual policies based on logical attributes to create adaptive zones of trust, using a separately configurable control plane.
  • Pressure incumbent security vendors to deliver their security controls in a virtualized form to more easily address secure private cloud-computing requirements.

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