ISLANDIA, N.Y., Oct. 11, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- CA Technologies
(NASDAQ: CA) today announced CA Access Control for Virtual
Environments, CA Access Control for Virtual Environments, a new
solution that extends its identity and access management (IAM)
security expertise, and complements and protects VMware® virtual
environments. CA Access Control for Virtual Environments helps
customers confidently virtualize critical applications by
addressing security and compliance concerns, and helping control
privileged user access to the virtual environment.
Virtualization management tools provide IT administrators with
tremendous flexibility and power to make significant, rapid changes
to their virtual environments. This authority increases the insider
threat and raises the need to protect virtual environments from
user mistakes, misuse or blatant, malicious actions by those users
with the most privilege.
The need for virtualization security was reinforced by recent
reports of significant operational disruption and financial impact
at a Japanese pharmaceutical company. A former employee
reportedly used his credentials to remotely access and delete
multiple virtual systems that were running critical applications,
such as email and others that supported financial functions.
"The security and control of virtual machines that can be
rapidly produced is a contributing factor to the concept of
'virtual stall.' Security is commonly cited as a reason why
virtualization is not used more pervasively in a production
environment for critical applications," said Mike Denning, general manager, CA Technologies
Security business. "Now, with CA Access Control for Virtual
Environments in our IAM security portfolio, we can deliver the
technology needed to automate end-to-end security of the data
center—from the mainframe and physical servers to virtual
environments."
CA Access Control for Virtual Environments helps customers:
- Achieve compliance for their virtual data center through
privileged user management for the hypervisor and guest virtual
machines;
- Gain visibility and control over virtual environments with
activity logging and privileged user password vaulting;
- Automate security operations and reduce security costs by
applying security controls according to pre-set policies;
- Expedite adoption of virtualization technology for critical
applications by improving security controls; and
- Create a secure, multi-tenant environment by isolating virtual
machines through network zoning.
"We see CA Access Control for Virtual Environments as a key
solution that will meet our needs in virtualization security and
help us to comply with PCI-DSS requirements," said Arieh Berger, manager, Operating Systems and
Information Security, EL AL Airlines. "By complementing and
extending the security that comes with VMware, CA Access Control
for Virtual Environments will allow us to enact segregation of
duties and control privileged user access – all automatically."
CA Technologies, HyTrust Alliance Expands in Scope
CA Access Control for Virtual Environments includes technology
from HyTrust, Inc. as part of a collaborative alliance between the
companies. By combining CA Technologies proven privileged user
access controls for virtual machines with the hypervisor security
controls from HyTrust, customers can add increased security to the
virtual environment, and protect against unauthorized access and
actions by privileged IT administrators. This added level of
security is often required on virtual systems in order to comply
with industry regulations and to confidently increase the use of
virtualization for streamlined operations and reduced cost.
"As adoption of virtualized hardware advances in maturity,
enterprises are increasingly compelled to find ways of automating
the management and security of the virtualization layer," said
Steve Coplan, senior analyst, The
451 Group. "Securing access to the hypervisor and implementing
centrally-defined controls on administrative activity are crucial
components of any strategy to inject greater oversight and
visibility into the virtualized layer. The partnership between CA
Technologies and HyTrust brings together expertise and integration
at the hypervisor tier with the ability to manage virtualization
administrative accounts as part of a broader privileged identity
management initiative. The outcome is greater visibility into
activity by administrators, and the ability to better define global
policies on privilege containment."
Availability
CA Access Control for Virtual Environments is available direct
from CA Technologies or through a growing global partner channel.
As partners offer solutions incorporating VMware solutions or the
HyTrust Appliance, CA Access Control for Virtual Environments is a
logical enhancement that provides the virtual machine security
layer and audit capabilities needed for PCI compliance and various
regulatory mandates.
"It is exciting to see the CA Access Control for Virtual
Environments solution come to market given it complements and
extends VMware environments and helps solution providers meet the
security needs of their customers," said Mike Nowlan, vice president of the North
American security, virtualization and networking practices for
Arrow Enterprise Computing Solutions, a leading provider of
enterprise and midrange computing solutions including security,
virtualization and networking technologies. Arrow ECS is a
value-added distributor for CA Technologies. "Arrow ECS looks
forward to connecting solution providers to CA Access Control for
Virtual Environments."
CA Technologies IAM Security at VMWorld Europe
CA Technologies will demonstrate CA Access Control for
Virtualized Environments at VMWorld Europe (Oct. 18-20) in Bella Center, Copenhagen, Denmark. In addition to showcasing
its solution for virtualization security, Nimrod Vax, senior director, product management,
CA Technologies; Eric Chiu,
president, HyTrust; and Robert
Randell, principal security and compliance specialist,
VMware, will participate in a panel discussion titled, "Payment
Card Industry (PCI) Compliance with CA Technologies, HyTrust and
VMware vShield" on Tuesday, October
18 at 9:00 a.m. CET. These
security, compliance and virtualization professionals will provide
their insight on emerging strategies and solutions for
virtualization and PCI compliance.
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mainframe and distributed, to virtual and cloud. CA Technologies
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IT organizations to power business agility. The majority of the
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