Posts Tagged ‘virtualisation’

CA Access Control for Virtual Environments

Wednesday, October 26th, 2011

CA Technologies promises to improve Virtualisation security with a new securty solution that enforces end-to-end privileged user management suport for VMware vSphere Environments.

CA Technologies is an IT management software and solutions company.CA Technologies is leveraging on CA Access Control for Virtual Environments to extend its identity and access management (IAM) security expertise. The new solution complements and protects VMware virtual environments.

“We see CA Access Control for Virtual Environments as a key solution that will meet our needs in virtualization security and help us to comply with PCI-DSS requirements,” said Arieh Berger, manager, Operating Systems and Information Security, EL AL Airlines. “By complementing and extending the security that comes with VMware, CA Access Control for Virtual Environments will allow us to enact segregation of duties and control privileged user access – all automatically.”The solution helps customers confidently virtualize critical applications by addressing security and compliance concerns, and helping control privileged user access to the virtual environment.

Virtualization management tools provide IT administrators with tremendous flexibility and power to make significant, rapid changes to their virtual environments.

This authority increases the insider threat and raises the need to protect virtual environments from user mistakes, misuse or blatant, malicious actions by those users with the most privilege.

CA Access Control for Virtual Environments is available direct from CA Technologies or through a growing global partner channel.

CA Access Control for Virtual Environments helps customers:

  • Achieve compliance for their virtual data center through privileged user management for the hypervisor and guest virtual machines;
  • Gain visibility and control over virtual environments with activity logging and privileged user password vaulting;
  • Automate security operations and reduce security costs by applying security controls according to pre-set policies;
  • Expedite adoption of virtualization technology for critical applications by improving security controls; and
  • Create a secure, multi-tenant environment by isolating virtual machines through network zoning.

CA and HyTrust ally to secure virtual and cloud infrastructure

Thursday, September 15th, 2011

Complementary technologies from these technology alliance partners promises to arm organisations with tools to virtualise with confidence.

CA Technologies is an IT management software and solutions company.CA Technologies and HyTrust, which provides solutions for policy management and access control for virtual infrastructure, has announced a collaboration to further improve security and compliance for customers leveraging virtualized systems and cloud infrastructures.

“Virtualization presents one of the most significant security challenges an IT organization faces, with the IT administrator being essentially given the ‘keys to the kingdom’ – access to every system and application. In the move to the cloud, the added complexity and multi-tenancy aspects of the infrastructure bring management, security, and compliance issues to the forefront,” said Eric Chiu, founder and president of HyTrust.

HyTrust Appliance complements CA Access Control by administering various aspects of a virtual infrastructure such as unified access control, policy enforcement and audit-quality logging.

HyTrust also supports the recently announced CA Automation Suite for Clouds by providing the security policy and compliance capabilities needed to improve security of the cloud infrastructure.

Large enterprises continue to explore the benefits of the cloud based on their experiences with virtualization, according to a December 2010 study conducted by Management Insight on behalf of CA Technologies.

This expansion moves them to a more complex infrastructure that demands more sophisticated and automated management and security.