Compute virtualization has been transformational, yet security policy implementation and enforcement has lagged behind in agility and automation.
There are a number of key considerations when implementing policy in private and hybrid clouds. In his session at 15th Cloud Expo, Malcolm Rieke, the Director of Product Management at Catbird, discussed the impact of this new paradigm and what organizations can do today to safely move to software-defined network and compute architectures, including:
How normal operations and security models cope with compute virtualization and current limitations
Which issues can be addressed by deploying security through applications and tying relationships of the apps to hypervisors and the network