Software Defined Security

Got you with that title, huh? :) Every couple of weeks, I join a number of other folks in the security business on Edward “Texiwill” Haletky’s Virtualization Security Podcast. Today’s episode, Sept 6th 2012, was a bit of a round-up of VMworld 2012 with a pretty good discussion on Big Data and Software Defined X, …

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Checkbox Security

  Is security something that you feel you HAVE to do? Are you doing the bare minimum required by your auditor? Are you “Checking the box”? In my role as Virtualization Evangelist, I seem to talk to mostly IT people. I endeavor to educate them on using VMware infrastructure as a layer (or multiple layer) …

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Going Rogue- How did that data get in the cloud?

How much of your corporate data is sitting on an unused virtual machine running on the infrastructure of a cloud service provider? “Ah, but Mike, I don’t have any VM’s running “in the cloud!” Oh really? Want an easy way to check? Go to your Finance organization and ask for a report of corporate credit …

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