Reflex Security to Provide Secure Virtualization Management By VSM News Staff published: Monday, September 15 2008
Leading Provider of Virtualization Management and Security Solutions to Showcase Future of Virtualized Data Center Environments at VMworld 2008.
Las Vegas, NV - September 15, 2008 (VMworld Booth #335) - Reflex Security,
the pioneer in virtual management and security, today announced Reflex will
be demonstrating its new "Virtualization Management Center" (VMC) at this
year's VMworld 2008 conference, representing the first virtualization
solution to bring top-level visibility, management, and granular control to
the next generation virtualized data centers.
Reflex's Virtualization Management Center is purpose-built for
virtualization on a strong security foundation. VMC provides the essential
tools needed to efficiently manage and protect virtual servers, desktops,
and networks across multiple platforms. Taking a different approach to
virtualization management, Reflex links virtualization features such as;
infrastructure discovery and visualization, revision control,
application/services discovery, network security, performance and policy
enforcement, back to security and exposes how changes or events within the
virtual environment can impact the entire business.
What you can't see, you can't manage
"You can't manage or control what you can't see, and this is a serious
challenge many organizations encounter when it comes to virtualized
environments," said Pete Privateer, president and CEO for Reflex Security.
"Enterprises need to address virtualization challenges through visibility,
management and security when planning or expanding virtualization
initiatives to realize the full cost savings and productivity benefits of
virtualization. Reflex helps companies bridge that gap between management
and security to ultimately provide virtual data center policy enforcement,
compliance and reporting."
Virtualization is now taking hold as the next-generation platform for data
centers of tomorrow, offering organizations the unique opportunity to build
multi-layer visibility, management and control into their virtual
environments, right from the start. As a result, companies will save
significant time and resources on rework and reconfiguration, and can
preemptively provide the high-level of management and security for virtual
infrastructure that has taken them so long to build for physical
infrastructure.
"Visibility and management go hand-in-hand, and in today's dynamic
virtualization environment, a strong link to security is increasingly
crucial," said Hezi Moore, CTO of Reflex Security. "With virtualization
becoming the dominant next-generation data center platform, right now we
have an opportunity to create unprecedented visibility and control over the
virtual network, enabling faster, more efficient response, and easier
compliance with the numerous regulatory standards that are increasingly
demanding insight into virtual environments."
Reflex Virtualization Management Center (VMC) - Features and Benefits
As enterprise organizations begin to deploy virtualization technologies into
live production data center environments, the ability to manage, secure,
audit, and control virtual machines is becoming a top priority. Reflex
Security's VMC is the industry's first virtualization management solution to
combine the following key management features with the necessary security
controls that enable IT administrators to visualize, proactively monitor
their virtual infrastructure and enforce business and IT policies.
Virtual Infrastructure Discovery & Mapping
Utilize extensive real-time and historical visual reporting through
timeline-based, graphical topology maps.
Revision Control & Configuration Monitoring
Monitor and analyze virtual infrastructure changes in real-time and
historically by tracking network revisions that generate network diagrams at
anytime in the past.
Applications & Services Discovery
Optimize and protect virtual environment through discovery of applications
and protocols over the virtual network by inspecting the traffic content.
Virtual Network Security (FW/IDS/IPS)
Reduce the risk of virtual machine intrusion, infection, and compliance
violations by detecting and preventing attacks on the virtual infrastructure
and enforcing IT policies.
Network & Application Performance Monitoring
Improve the service level for critical applications and quickly troubleshoot
issues by analyzing virtual network performance and discovering virtual
network bottlenecks.
Virtual Machine Lifecycle
Monitor the health of virtual machines from creation to decommission by
tracking users, configurations, applications, and performance in context of
security.
Virtualization Policy Management
Define and enforce IT policies across multi-vendor virtual environments.
About Reflex Security
Reflex Security, first to market with the Reflex Virtual Security Appliance
in 2006, is the industry leader in virtualization management and security.
Purpose built for virtual environments, Reflex VMC integrates firewall,
IPS/IDS, reporting, application awareness, visibility, and change control
into a complete virtual security solution. Reflex virtualization management
solution enables organizations to accelerate adoption of next generation
virtualized data centers by addressing potential challenges, such as
monitoring the dynamic environment, maintaining secure configuration,
cross-functional management, and regulatory compliance while capitalizing on
the virtualization investment; thus enhancing overall data center security.
Reflex VSA supports VMware's ESX server and Citrix's XenServer virtual
server environments. Reflex Security is based in Atlanta, Georgia and is
privately held. For more information, including a trial download of Reflex
VSA, visit www.reflexsecurity.com. Reflex
VSA is distributed by Avnet and Lifeboat and has authorized partners
worldwide.
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