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Securing your ESX Server with Reflex VSA!



OK everyone's been screaming about security since sure if a product is doing so darn good. Maybe we can crack it by pointing to its vulnerabilities. Sure lots of talk about how VM Rootkits would kill VMs! VMware's R&D guy explains that it isn't VM but the OS. And hey OSs have been vulnerable all the time, they're just running as a VM now , that doe not necessarily mean that if they get hacked your VM is to blame!

Anyways I also saw this upcoming product Reflex VSA on securing the ESX Server to start with. The news article says...


Reflex VSA is a virtualized network security appliance that operates within a virtual network and replicates the operational attributes and interfaces of a physical network security appliance, while supporting the Reflex Security apps.


And this is what the company has to say...

Product Benefits:
Reflex VSA solves the problem that traditional network security such as IPS and firewall appliances currently can not solve: detecting and preventing attacks within a virtual server. Because Reflex VSA runs as virtualized application inside the virtualized environment, it can detect and mitigate threats between virtual hosts and networks.

Reflex VSA Features:

  • Access firewall for permission enforcement for intra-host and external network communication
  • • Intrusion Prevention with inline blocking and filtering for virtualized networks
  • • Anomaly, signature, and rate-based threat detection capability
  • Network Discovery to discover and map all virtual machines and applications
  • • Reflex Command Center, providing a centralized configuration and management console, comprehensive reporting tools, and real-time event aggregation and correlation
Anyways I want to see what it really does! So I've ordered for a demo. And you'd ask yourself the same questions that I'm asking myself.

IF IT(ddos,access violation etc) CAN REACH MY PHYSICAL SERVER (by passing my firewall/PIX where I spend massive amounts yearly on support from vendors like Cisco) THEN I WAS NEVER SAFE, AIN'T IT?





Cheers

Tarry
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