The Play
Security For Virtual Environments
By 2011, 20% of desktops and 80% of servers in large enterprises will be equipped
with
virtualized security partitions. – Gartner Dec 2007
Background:
VMware Infrastructure 3 (VI3) is the industry’s most widely deployed software suite for optimizing and managing IT environments for x86 server virtualization. VI3 offers businesses a scalable and cost-effective way to optimize utilization of technology assets, simplify IT management, and protect the data and IT environments that run their businesses. More companies across the globe have realized the cost savings, scalability and manageability of a virtualized datacenter, which has accelerated an already high growth technology segment. As virtualized datacenters become more pervasive, the need to secure those environments becomes critical.
The Pain:
Though virtualization provides significant operational benefits, it changes the “rules of the game” for network security professionals. Virtualization creates an invisible dynamic network infrastructure that conventional security products can neither see nor protect. This lack of visibility and control exposes virtual data centers and sensitive information to cyber attacks. Unfortunately, many mission critical servers are not leveraging the benefits of virtualization due to the following challenges:
• Limited visibility and control inside the virtual network
• Meeting stringent compliance regulations
• Effectively monitoring a dynamic environment
• Maintaining secure configuration
• Internal and external threats
The Solution:
Reflex Security's VSM™ virtual security management solution provides VMware VI3 customers a comprehensive and cost-effective means to solve these ever growing virtual datacenter security challenges and needs.
Reflex Security’s VSM™ integrates into VMware VI3 to provide comprehensive security and visibility to the virtual environment. Reflex VSM combines Reflex’s Virtual Security Center (VSC) and award-winning Virtual Security Appliance (VSA) to secure, audit and control the virtual infrastructure by providing unmatched visibility, network security and policy enforcement to protect virtual machines, networks and the underlying host of the virtualization platform. This allows organizations to provide appropriate security to virtual machines that would otherwise be exposed.
Reflex Virtual Security Center (VSC) – provides single authoritative visual interface and central management for up to thousands of Reflex VSA™ instances allowing users to administer, secure and monitor virtual infrastructure. This results in better network and event visibility for a faster and more effective security response. Through extensive real-time and historical visual reporting, Reflex VSC gives administrators the tools they need to efficiently meet stringent compliance requirements.
Reflex Virtual Security Appliance (VSA) – provides security controls by integrating firewall, deep packet inspection, reporting, application awareness and change control into a complete virtual security solution. Reflex VSA can safeguard communications between virtual components and resources outside the host machine. This provides a complete security perimeter around and between virtual machines and reduces the risk of virtual machine intrusion, infection, compliance violations or other consequences. There are multiple deployment options for Reflex VSA depending on business need.
