Catbird Offers Virtual Security

June 4, 2008: With virtualisation on the meteoric rise, security specialist Catbird has released the industry’s first and only Virtual Infrastructure Security Assessment (VSA), helping IT administrators identify and plug security and compliance holes create during the switch from physical to virtual infrastructure.

The company says its 30-day assessment includes a security analysis, detailed reports with actionable intelligence and a comprehensive plan to mitigate risk and protect critical virtual systems, networks, desktops and processes.

It claims that the VSA identifies the scope and magnitude of the virtualisation compliance gap through analysis of the new architecture’s impact on change control, separation of duties, network visibility and segmentation, and secondary validation.

“While virtualisation platforms are safe, it’s really easy to inadvertently bypass the traditional control mechanisms and best-practices common to all physical corporate data centres,” says Catbird CTO, Michael Berman.

“Virtual machine deployment is as simple as a single click from a single person. Combine that with an ad-hoc approach to network segmentation and the inadequacies of physical security devices in the virtual world, and now you have potentially serious compliance and security holes.

“Catbird’s VSA is a one-stop, simple way to help IT administrators migrate the best practices of their physical infrastructure over to the virtual landscape.”

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