All Posts Tagged With: "virtsec"

Reflex Security Rebrands To Reflex Systems

Reflex Security today announced it has changed its company name to Reflex Systems. The new moniker was given “to more appropriately convey the award-winning comprehensive virtual infrastructure management offering that the company is now known for in addition to the virtual security appliance solution that Reflex pioneered”.

4Nov2008 | Robin Wauters | 0 comments | Continued

Embotics Releases White Paper on Virtualization Security

Embotics today announced “Understanding VirtSec,” a new study that focuses on virtual server security issues inherent in IT environments.

8Oct2008 | Robin Wauters | 0 comments | Continued

Research and Markets Releases New Report on Virtualization Security

Research and Markets has announced the addition of the “Virtualization Security: The Early Stages of a New Battleground” report to their offering.

7Oct2008 | Robin Wauters | 0 comments | Continued

0wning Xen … In More Detail

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Over at her own blog, Joanna Rutkowska from Invisible Things has some updates on their findings about Xen security as we earlier reported.
Joanna argues that most of the attacks presented indeed require that the attacker first gains access to the Dom0 before he can launch the attacks but that doesn’t take away the [...]

25Aug2008 | Kris Buytaert | 0 comments | Continued

0wning Xen?

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InvisibleThings.org posted some more details on their Xen Owning Trilogy session at last weeks Black Hat conference in Las Vegas.
Joanna Rutkowska and her crew gave a series of 3 talks discussing different potential security issues with Xen. With the VirtSec awareness growing this obviously is an important topic .
When quickly skimming trough the presentations [...]

11Aug2008 | Kris Buytaert | 1 comment | Continued

A Round Table on Virtualization Security with Industry Experts

A conference call about virtualization security (virtsec) with Joe Pendry (Director of Marketing at StackSafe), Kris Buytaert (Principle at Consultant Inuits), Tarry Singh (Industry/Market Analyst Founder & CEO of Avastu), Andreas Antonopoulos (SVP & Founding Partner at Nemertes Research),Allwyn Sequeira (SVP & CTO at Blue Lane), Michael Berman (CTO at Catbird), Chris Hoff (Chief Security Architect - Systems & Technology Division and Blogger at Unisys) and Hezi Moore (President, Founder & CTO at Reflex Security).

30Jul2008 | Kris Buytaert | 3 comments | Continued

Reflex Security Introduces Reflex Virtual Security Center

Reflex Security, a virtualization security management company, today announced the availability of Reflex Virtual Security Center (VSC), which aims to provide heightened visibility and control for virtualized environments. Reflex VSC provides a single authoritative visual interface to secure the virtual data center.

22Jul2008 | Robin Wauters | 0 comments | Continued

Invisible Things Lab: Hypervisors Mucho Hackable

Security researchers from Invisible Things Lab claim will be demonstrating how easy it is to hack hypervisors at the next Black Hat conference in Las Vegas in August. More specifically, they’ll be discussing the (in)security of the Xen hypervisor, such as how to plant rootkits, how to bypass various hypervisor anti-subverting techniques, as well as how “Bluepills” can be used in bare-metal hypervisor compromises. They plan on releasing proof-of-concept code.

8Jul2008 | Robin Wauters | 0 comments | Continued

Trustware Introduces BufferZone Pro 3.0

Trustware, provider of application virtualization security technologies, recently unveiled a new version of its security software application, BufferZone Pro 3.0.

17Jun2008 | Robin Wauters | 0 comments | Continued

A Conversation About Virtualization Security, The Quotes

Last week, an interesting conference call took place with several industry leaders in the virtualization security (virtsec) area, initiated by Virtualization.com. Here are some of the most interesting quotes from that conversation.

11Jun2008 | Kris Buytaert | 2 comments | Continued

Catbird Delivers Virtual Infrastructure Security Assessment

Catbird, virtualization security specialist and developer of the V-Agent virtual appliance, announced today the industry’s “first and only” Virtual Infrastructure Security Assessment (VSA).

3Jun2008 | Robin Wauters | 0 comments | Continued

Who Owns Virtualization Security? The Hoff/Crosby Debate

We’ve decided to cross-publish a blog post by Gregory Ness, VP of Marketing for Blue Lane Technologies, because we think it delivers a good insight in the whole Hoff/Crosby debate about virtualization security (virtsec, if you will).

21May2008 | Robin Wauters | 5 comments | Continued
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