Virtualization Under Control.™

The power and flexibility of virtualization create new risks that must be addressed.

Virtualization is becoming increasingly ubiquitous in the datacenter thanks to its numerous benefits and rapid return on investment. Unfortunately the increased flexibility of virtualization, which enables so many of its benefits, can simultaneously increase security risk and complicate compliance initiatives. Failure to address these concerns can hamper efforts to virtualize critical applications or can prevent virtualization initiatives from moving forward.

New capabilities. New risks.

Virtualization Risks Diagram

As organizations begin to virtualize more significant and/or sensitive parts of the infrastructure, the organization must be able to confidently address these new risks. And, in some cases, demonstrate their efforts to third-party auditors. How does an organization ensure today that a sensitive server won't be snapshotted onto a USB? Or that a core (virtual) switch isn't accidentally turned off? Or that a virtual machine with credit card information or health care records isn't moved from a private host to a public host? Or that a shared "root" account on a host won't be used for nefarious purposes?

For enterprises seeking to maximize the return on their investment in virtualization who have limited their "virtual footprint" due to this lack of visibility and control, HyTrust Appliance delivers enterprise-class controls for access, accountability, and visibility for virtualization infrastructure. HyTrust Appliance systematically addresses each of these key risks, enabling organizations to confidently deploy virtualization, address each of these major risks, and satisfy the requirements of their auditors in the process.

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