Comments on: Virtualization Security Gut-Check http://spiresecurity.com/?p=185 Risk and Cybersecurity Analysis Wed, 21 Aug 2013 23:28:51 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Rational Survivability http://spiresecurity.com/?p=185&cpage=1#comment-259 Rational Survivability Mon, 10 Mar 2008 15:25:52 +0000 http://spiresecurity.com/blog/?p=185#comment-259 The Unbearable Lightness of Being…Virtualized

My apologies to Pete Lindstrom for not responding to his comment regarding my virtualization defibrilation post sooner and hat-tip for Rothman for the reminder. Pete was commenting on a snippet from my larger post dealing with the following assertion:T…

]]> By: Greg Ness http://spiresecurity.com/?p=185&cpage=1#comment-258 Greg Ness Thu, 06 Mar 2008 17:35:57 +0000 http://spiresecurity.com/blog/?p=185#comment-258 Pete:

I think the virtsec shift will mean more NIPS emphasis on layer 7 intelligence versus L4 deep packet architecture. The movement and change in a virtual (esp rack and stack) infrastructure will make static pattern matching and tuning onerous. I talked about this with Tarry Singh at VMworld: http://virtualization.com/video-audio-vodcast-vlog/2008/03/05/video-interview-greg-ness-vp-marketing-with-blue-lane-technologies-vmworld-europe-2008/

Think about the irony of virtualizing a portion of a production infrastructure into a rack and stack only to get it to emulate the old infrastructure left behind. You have neutered the value proposition.

Thats why its important for VMware to articulate improved security capabilities (versus legacy solutions that can now kluge with arrays of agents and sensors).

Greg
Blue Lane

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