Dave Shackleford
Recent Posts
Security as a Business Enabler: The Long View, from the trenches
Much has been said in the last five years about how security “needs a seat at the business ...
An Overview of Virtualization Security Guidance: Part II
In the first post of this two-part series, I described security guidance regimes and tools ...
An Overview of Virtualization Security Guidance: Part I
As virtualization adoption grows, organizations are becoming more attuned to the need to ...
Back to Basics: Virtualization as a Security Enabler (part 2)
In my last post, I explored the idea of improving information security with virtualization ...
Back to Basics: Virtualization as a Security Enabler (part 1)
The news these days in security is mostly “doom and gloom”. Just consulting a site like ...
The Next Cloud Frontier: True Software-Defined Security
In last post of this series, I described what a Software-Defined Data Center (SDDC) is, and ...
The Next Cloud Frontier: The Security Layer in the Stack?
Based on what we’re seeing with organizations implementing heavily virtualized ...
Re-thinking “trust”: Security in software-defined networking
One of the hottest topics in IT today is software-defined networking, or SDN. SDN separates ...
Revisiting the “Goldilocks Zone”: Moving toward the virtual data center
There is no question that the footprint of today’s data center is rapidly moving toward the ...
The State of Endpoint Security in Virtual Environments
There’s no question that the majority of organizations are virtualizing servers, and ...