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RSA, the security division of EMC, has outlined a strategic vision and a set of RSA solutions and services to help enterprises address the security and compliance of information and identities within VMware environments.
Through its ongoing technology development partnership with VMware, RSA has worked to ensure three of its core security products – RSA SecurID strong authentication, the RSA enVision platform and RSA Data Loss Prevention (DLP) Endpoint software – operate within VMware environments. This enables enterprise IT organisations to deploy security and management controls that span both physical and virtual environments with RSA products they’ve already invested in.
Technology capabilities delivered by RSA for use in VMware vSphere and VMware View environments include:
* Ensure Data Confidentiality: RSA addresses the risk of sensitive data leakage for virtual desktops within the VMware View environment by delivering interoperability with the RSA DLP Suite. Specifically, with RSA DLP Endpoint, administrators can configure data detection policies to discover sensitive information and enforce controls across all workstations and remote laptops in the enterprise from a centralised location.
* Monitor Security Events and Demonstrate Compliance: The RSA enVision security information and event management (SIEM) platform now delivers the ability to monitor and report on administrator actions and operational events within both VMware View and VMware vSphere environments to enable organisations to make better security decisions and help maintain policy compliance based on more accurate and timely security intelligence. A new collector has been built within the RSA enVision platform to collect more than 350 events from the VMware platform to deliver these capabilities. RSA enVision SIEM spans physical and virtual environments with the same management, policy and reporting framework to help bring VMware environments under a consistent and centralised set of controls.
* Establish Trusted Identities: RSA SecurID two-factor authentication provides an added layer of security to ensure the right user can access the relevant virtual session within the virtual desktop environment. Specifically, RSA SecurID technology is engineered to integrate with VMware View to enable customers to enforce strong authentication to the VMware View portal, VMware vSphere Management Assistant and with the VMware ESX Service Console to protect administrative access.
RSA Solutions Extend to Protect Vblock
RSA technologies have also been validated to protect the Vblock Infrastructure Packages recently announced by the Virtual Computing Environment coalition , which was formed by Cisco and EMC together with VMware. RSA security solutions are layered onto the Vblock architecture to offer built-in security features that integrate with customers’ IT and security operations. Vblock technology is designed to extend a customer’s existing enterprise security controls to the virtual infrastructure and integrates with existing security products and frameworks to help minimise risk when adopting private cloud infrastructures.