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  Playbook: Strategies for Delivering Dynamic Security for Virtual Data Centers

  Companies are virtualizing their servers and storage systems to reduce operational costs and increase business flexibility--but they are overlooking potential security gaps. Virtual servers require different security measures and a new perspective for the data center. Stay on top of this latest security trend, and understand how to secure your most valuable IT assets against increasingly aggressive attacks. Download the Virtualization Playbook.

Featured Video

• Interview with Blue Lane CEO Jeff Palmer

  Hear Blue Lane CEO Jeff Palmer talk about how virtual appliances can secure your company's servers from threats and attacks.

Featured Articles

• SEEKING ALPHA: Dispelling Virtualization Security Myths

  There is plenty of hype and confusion about how to properly secure virtual infrastructures and the state of the netsec industry relative to the growth of virtualization. I would like to step up and take a few swings at the issues and offer up a new Gartner webcast in an effort to dispel some of the myths and hype. Read the article.

• ALWAYS ON: Security 3.0 and the Perimeter Myth

  Over the last few weeks I've been talking to analysts and security pros about virtualization, security and the evolution of netsec to virtsec. I've come to the conclusion that for many organizations their network really doesn't have a perimeter, at least in the classic sense of defense. The idea of a strategic point of defense that protects what is inside has become a legacy myth, an anachronism from the early days of netsec and fame-seeking hackers.

• ALWAYS ON: Addressing Virtsec in the Trenches

  Because virtualization creates a new layer between hardware and software, many new powerful capabilities are introduced. Security and operations teams who understand these capabilities can take full advantage of them and enhance security. In fact, our belief is that virtualization will ultimately provide more effective and flexible security solutions than the status quo, provided organizations take advantage of the new virtsec capabilities; those who don't either crimp back on the benefit/ROI or take additional security risks.

• ALWAYS ON: Netsec and Virtsec - Weird Scenes inside the Gold Mine

  The world of network security is about to change in a way not yet fully comprehended by most of the experts and vendors who have flourished since the 1990s in the world of proliferating pipes, hackers, viruses, bots and worms.ÊThese smart and usually deep subject matter experts are probably not that different from those temporarily blinded by major transformations.

• NETWORK COMPUTING: Taking Virtualization Security Seriously

  Virtualization security has been on the minds of a lot of IT folks lately. There's no doubt that virtualization changes the security game - and because it involves new software - the potential for new exploits exists

• INFORMATIONWEEK: Virtualization Security Heats Up

  An attack that breaches the hypervisor is IT's new worst nightmare. Are you prepared?

• ALWAYS ON: The Sky is Not Falling... Yet

  Wall Street has voted on the promise of virtualization, sending VMware shares skyward in an ascent into the Googlesphere. With Microsoft and Citrix hovering, certainly the pressure on VMware at this point is on execution. They have the buzz. They have the momo. They have the VM eco-system.

• ALWAYS ON: Security's Wake Up Call

  I last talked about the impact of virtualization on static security solutions. I observed that virtualization introduces new potentials for flexibility and change over and beyond anything the world of network security has ever seen. Unfortunately for a host of large security vendors, most of the typical devices being used to protect physical data centers require a certain level of stability (or inflexibility) in order to promise proper protection.

• A Look at Blue Lane VirtualShield: Virtually Secure

  Network Computing put Blue Lane VirtualShield to the test and found its unique patching approach an effective way to protect against remotely exploitable vulnerabilities targeting VMware.

• Always On: Attack of the Mutant Bots

  With mutant bots and worms on the outside and virtualization on the inside it is increasingly obvious that innovation is converting static security solutions into sponge-like anachronisms.

• YAHOO: Gartner Says Organizations that Rush to Adopt Virtualization Can Weaken Security

  Virtualization offers organizations the opportunity to reduce costs and increase agility, however, if this is done without implementing best practices for security, virtualization may actually increase costs and reduce agility, according to Gartner, Inc.

• INFORMATIONWEEK: Fighting Security Ghosts In The Virtual Machine

• Dark Reading: Virtual Tip of the Iceberg

• Always On: The Beginning of the End of Static Security

• Dark Reading: Six Hot Security Products

• Network Computing: Interview with Blue Lane Technologies' CEO Jeff Palmer

Resources

• Webcast: Data Center and Virtualization

  Hear Blue Lane's Allwyn Sequeira's presentation from the Next Gen Data Center conference. Learn the myths vs. reality when it comes to virtualization security. Get an understanding of the impact of virtualization on security. Learn why the current approaches don't measure up and a new paradigm is needed. Watch the webcast.

• VirtualShield for VMware Infrastructure 3

  Blue Lane VirtualShield for VMware Infrastructure 3 is a software-based vulnerability shield that provides instant protection for virtual servers on a VMware hypervisor. Addressing the unique challenges of virtual server security, the VirtualShield is capable of securing any number of servers on a single hypervisor, including unpatched, out-of-date, offline or legacy virtual machines. Learn more about VirtualShield.

• Blue Lane Virtual Shield Wins 2007 'Best of Interop' Award Winners

  Blue Lane Virtual Shield won Best of Interop in the security category. The awards are hand-selected by Network Computing's panel of expert judges. Each year, Best of Interop winners prove to be the key players in the continuing evolution of business technology. — PR Newswire

  

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Media

• VIRTUAL STRATEGY MAGAZINE: Interview with Blue Lane's Serge Maskalik

  Brian Ducharme, editor of Virtual Strategy,interviews Blue Lane's Serge Maskalik at VMworld moments afterÊBlue Lane won Best of VMworld Finalist in data protection. Watch the video. Listen to the podcast.

• VIRTUAL STRATEGY MAGAZINE: VirtualShield — Production-Ready Security for VI3

  Listen to this podcast with Allwyn Sequeira, Blue Lane Technologies, to learn about the key elements of virtualization, new threats to virtual machines and how to fix the root cause. Listen to the podcast.

• SCOBLE SHOW: Attention Security Experts - BlueLane Protects Your Virtual Machines

  Allwyn Sequeira, senior VP of product operations at Bluelane, tells Robert Scoble about his company's new Virtual Shield, which protects enterprises against virtual machine attacks. Listen to the podcast.

About the Sponsor

Blue Lane Technologies is headquartered in Cupertino, CA. The company provides solutions that optimize business operations and availability with their server vulnerability shield for enterprise servers, the first product to deliver upon that goal. Blue Lane's solution directly reduces the costs and risks associated with the patching of servers and provides protection for servers that are hard-to-patch or cannot be patched. On March 15 Blue Lane announced the availability of its VirtualShield™ for VMware's Infrastructure 3 hypervisor. www.bluelane.com