Start-up FireEye made its debut, announcing plans to ship a switch-based network-access control appliance next month that will let customers identify network-borne malware and attacks in order to ...

Cloud VMs offer unmatched speed, scale and flexibility – all of which could eventually count for little if they’re left to ...

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From a security perspective, containers are the Wild West – full of exciting possibilities, but also unfamiliar dangers. A study out of Forrester points to this mix of hopes and fears. In the report, ...

When VMware Inc. announced its Project Monterey strategy to redefine the data center last week, executives effused about the potential of the distributed processing model to redefine cybersecurity.

Back in September, the Center for Internet Security (CIS) released a whitepaper titled "Virtual Machine Security Guidelines - Version 1.0". In it, they addressed security concerns that apply to ...

Altor Network's Amir Ben-Efraim, CEO, spoke to me recently about Altor VF. The company claims it is the first "purpose built" firewall for virtualized environments. Like Catbird (see Security of ...

Google is requiring new chipsets that launch with Android 15 support to implement support for the Android Virtualization Framework. The Android Virtualization Framework provides a secure and private ...

Phishing sites are now using JavaScript to evade detection by checking whether a visitor is browsing the site from a virtual machine or headless device. Cybersecurity firms commonly use headless ...

Google Cloud Platform is now in the works to bring Virtual Machine Threat Detection (VMTD) as part of its plans to increase protection against crypto-related malware and other hacking incidents.

Recently, I've heard many security officers talking about using virtual machines as a way to increase security. If your developers need local administrator rights and privileges and they can't have ...

Virtualization is the hot new trend in corporate data centers today. Virtualization servers from Microsoft, VMware and XenSource allow many virtual computers to run on a single (real) computer system.