IBM Acts To Enhance Security Of Virtual Environments

IBM has introduced IBM Virtual Server Security for VMware vSphere, a software product designed to help organisations secure and protect their virtual server infrastructure. The software will help safeguard virtual server environments and allows businesses a more secure path for transitioning critical assets to virtual enterprise data centres.

The software provides protection for every layer of the virtual infrastructure including the hypervisor, operating system, network, applications, server-based virtual desktops, virtual machine and traffic between virtual machines. By integrating with VMware VMsafe technology, the new software provides clients with security granularity and scalability in their growing virtual data centres.

Automatic protection features include:

• Virtual Network Access Control (VNAC) to limit network access from a virtual server until security posture is confirmed;
• rootkit detection and prevention to increase virtual server uptime and availability;
• virtual infrastructure monitoring and reporting to identify vulnerabilities;
• autodiscovery and virtual network segment protection to provide visibility and control of the virtual infrastructure.

IBM Virtual Server Security for VMware vSphere will be available in December 2009.