Security

Join us LIVE in a Few Hours to Talk SECURITY!

Bob Plankers posted December 9th, 2020

What are you doing at 1:30 PM Central today? Why don’t you join our YouTube LIVE Stream where Mike Foley, Ken Drori, and I (Bob Plankers) talk about the present state and future directions of VMware vSphere Security? Mike is old-school vSphere Security Technical Marketing who is now working with Kubernetes and vSphere with Tanzu, Read more...

Don’t Miss Our “5 Ways to Keep Attackers Out” Live Stream on Thursday

Bob Plankers posted October 27th, 2020

Join us tomorrow, October 29, at 6:00 AM Pacific for the last of our Cybersecurity Awareness Month talks (early in case our EMEA friends would like to join — cybersecurity is, in fact, a global task). This talk will cover ways to keep attackers out of vSphere and our related infrastructures. It’ll be short (~20 Read more...

Join Us Live at 11 AM Pacific Today to Talk Compliance Audits

Bob Plankers posted October 22nd, 2020

It’s Cybersecurity Awareness Month and we’re on our third week of live talks. In fact, the third one starts in just a few hours. Join me at 11 AM Pacific on October 22, 2020 as we talk about surviving compliance audits in a vSphere environment. No registration needed, just show up over in our YouTube Read more...

Join Us Live on October 22 to Talk about Compliance Audits and vSphere!

Bob Plankers posted October 20th, 2020

It’s Cybersecurity Awareness Month and we’re on our third week of live talks. This week I will be talking about compliance audits and regulatory work, specifically surviving an audit. Join me at 11 AM Pacific on October 22, 2020. No registration needed, just show up! Compliance is one of those things we, as vSphere Admins, Read more...

Securing Applications with vSphere: Cybersecurity Awareness Month

Bob Plankers posted October 13th, 2020

October is Cybersecurity Awareness Month, and to celebrate we are doing weekly live streams on different topics related to the weekly themes of the month. This week the overall theme is “Securing Devices at Home and Work,” and in the vSphere world we are thinking about workloads. Applications and workloads are the reason that our Read more...

Announcing the vSphere Security Configuration Guide 7

Bob Plankers posted October 6th, 2020

We are pleased to announce the availability of the vSphere Security Configuration Guide 7. The vSphere Security Configuration Guide (SCG) is the baseline for hardening and auditing guidance for VMware vSphere itself. Started more than a decade ago, it has long served as guidance for vSphere Administrators looking to protect their infrastructure. In the world Read more...

Join Us Live for Cybersecurity Awareness Month!

Bob Plankers posted October 2nd, 2020

Happy Cybersecurity Awareness Month! Since 2004, every October in the United States is Cybersecurity Awareness Month (and Fire Safety Month, too – test your smoke alarms!). So often, we are simply reacting to breaches, threats, and audit findings, but we don’t often stop to think about the proactive side to security. Having a month to Read more...

VMware Design Studio Looking For Security Feedback

Bob Plankers posted September 24th, 2020

Hey vSphere fans, just a few days to go until VMworld 2020. Over 100,000 people have signed up which is absolutely wonderful. If you’ve ever used a VMware product and thought “I really wish this worked differently” or “I wonder who picks what this stuff looks like” we’ve got an opportunity for you: the VMware Read more...

vSphere 7 Update 1 – AMD SEV-ES

Bob Plankers posted September 15th, 2020

In August 2019 VMware joined AMD on stage as they announced their second generation EPYC server-class CPUs. Together we announced support, in a future release of vSphere, for the AMD Secure Encrypted Virtualization (SEV) and Secure Encrypted Virtualization – Encrypted State (SEV-ES) advanced security features of those CPUs. vSphere 7 Update 1 keeps our promise, Read more...

Security with VMware Tools

Bob Plankers posted July 14th, 2020

VMware vSphere offers a number of tools to improve the security of guest operating systems, like UEFI Secure Boot, Virtualization-based Security (which enables Microsoft Device Guard & Credential Guard), vTPM, encrypted vMotion, VM encryption, vSAN encryption, and more. Let’s look INSIDE the guest OS at some options available through the VMware Tools. Security is a Read more...

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