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Securing Virtualization: The virtualization blog of the RSA community

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The inherent value of virtualization in today's IT infrastructure, combined with economic pressures and the resulting impact on resources and budget, is accelerating many company's plans to virtualize their enviroments.

We can help companies accelerate the benefits of virtualization and accelerate their journey to the private cloud by identifying new benefits while mitigating security concerns which arise from virtualization technologies.

The RSA Security Practice of EMC Consulting, leveraging RSA's security expertise and EMC's leadership in virtualization and cloud, offers broad based security assessments for virtualized environments and new services to secure Virtual Desktop Infrastructures, leverage RSA best practices and established safeguards to help build secure virtualized and private cloud environments through technology, policy and program development.

Our security consulting services for Virtualization and Private Cloud Security include:

• Security Assessment for Virtualized Environments
  We help customers understand the security posture of their virtualized infrastructure and establish optimum plans to achieve policy or compliance objectives - without compromising the value of virtualization technology. These services establish virtualization security policies, management and technology plans that support both virtualization and security objectives.
• Securing Virtual Desktop Infrastructure
  Our clients are beginning to exploit the advantages of virtualization at the end point, realizing significant capital expense reductions, improved operational cost advantages, and - equally important - increasing the security of critical data at the desktop. Too often, the lack of endpoint security controls results in information risk. We help our clients apply Virtual Desktop technology in a secure fashion to mitigate this risk while accelerating the overall value of virtualizaton to the enterprise.

RSA Professional Services apply a range of authentication, data protection, and security event management solutions into virtualized enviornments to accelerate the return on investment of this technology while maintaining the appropriate security controls and posture. Our services span ever aspect of design, implementation, optimization and lifecycle use of RSA solutions such as SecurID, DLP Suite and enVision, in conjunction with our knowledge of virtualization technologies, to ensure our client's benefit from their investment.