quite a narrow view of the world if he thinks security is just what runs in some VM's
VMware wants security industry to shrink so its ambitions fit into market
VMware's entered the enterprise security market and called for it to become more concentrated. The somewhat arrogant analysis comes from the top-down: CEO Pat Gelsinger's opening day keynote featured a slide full of logos most often deployed when vendors show off all of their most recognisable customers. VMware put a twist on …
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Tuesday 5th September 2017 09:03 GMT K
Agreed.
The big problem I see between Cloud an On-prem at the moment is the disjointed security, I wish somebody would come up with a solution for that. Certain things you would take for granted with on-prem, such dropping a couple of Next-gen Firewalls to a core-location, or tapping a port to give traffic forensics etc.. Are very difficult or impossible in AWS, and AWS don't seem interested in offering a decent alternative.
Instead what you get is, a few security
policiesgroups to control port and IP access.. no IPS, DPS, DPI or App filtering. Everytime I think about this, I have 1 single thought "... Hey AWS, 2003 just called, they want their security methodology back.."If AWS offered the hypervisor capabilities of ESXi to customers on the normal EC2 platform, the world and cloud would be a much better place!
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Tuesday 5th September 2017 14:41 GMT Sir Runcible Spoon
Re: Great Metaphor...
Agreed. He needed a car analogy.
Imagine you have a basic car, but in order to make it safe you keep having to add things to it from different vendors - such as airbags, ABS, crumple zones, parking sensors, automatic seat wipes, roll-cages etc.
One day your car can't move because it's too heavy. That's a bad analogy because that car is now safe, but you get my drift :)
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Tuesday 5th September 2017 22:48 GMT Fan of Mr. Obvious
Know you competition
It does not appear that Mr. Gelsinger knows his security competition. Whilst the image itself is pretty bad for my eyes, I see at least a few vendors that are playing in fields where VMware conveniently left out their logo. Perhaps more vendors covering 80% of the market than he thinks?
And what makes VMware think that everyone is so unhappy with multiple vendors? Last time I checked, it was not such a bad idea to not put all the keys in the hands of a single vendor. Sure a single management console is nice, but a single finger pointing at a massive problem is out numbered.
As for AppDefense, how many will be creating versions of acceptable behavior based on already compromised systems?