Virtualized data centers are subject to the same corporate policies and regulatory mandates as their physical counterparts. However, the virtualization security solutions for visibility, segregation, and access control required to fulfill the compliance requirements have been lacking for the virtualized data center.
Altor’s granular visibility and control coupled with an extensible policy engine purpose-built for addressing compliance in the virtualized data center enables enterprises to embrace virtualization while complying with corporate and regulatory policies.
A dashboard view (shown below) of the compliance status and an intuitive work flow allows the administrator to quickly identify deviations from compliance rules.
The pace of change in a virtualized data center is fast and immediate. Altor’s virtualization security solutions allow the administrator to extend out-of-box compliance rules or create their own custom rules based on application, OS, and network profile of virtual machines.
New VMs are automatically assessed for compliance and granted or denied access accordingly, ensuring that there are no security gaps.
For meeting regulatory mandates like PCI, Altor provides a hierarchical policy editor for building the precise requirements – very restrictive policy can be applied to high-value VMs, and a permissive policy to other VMs.
Altor’s virtualization security solutions also address the reporting requirements of compliance with an automated reporting engine, and integrations with leading log consolidation SIEM/SIM products from vendors like ArcSight and Juniper.