Virtualization security

Healthcare technologies and mobile working practices are producing more data than ever before, so there are more opportunities for data to be lost or stolen.

The healthcare and financial services industries are among those especially reluctant to implement newer technologies, security included, and believe they have a good reason for that.

A recent survey shows that IT professionals have a very uneven understanding of how to protect their virtualization environments. Baseline awareness exists, but there’s a Roman Colosseum of room for improvement.

The virtual environment requires the same protection as physical PCs, but the approach should be different. Full blown security solutions on every virtual machine? The strain for a physical server would be too great. But here comes ‘Light-Agent’…