Take Back Control – Understand, Secure and Maintain Your Enterprise’s Virtualized Environments

While virtualization is now mainstream, securing these virtual environments is not even on most companies’ radar screens. There are multiple risks from virtualization that demand companies re-examine their architectures, policies and implementations. Based on multiple client assessments, this session will present a best practices approach to understanding and mitigating virtualization security risks. Key takeaways for this presentation: • Learn the key dimensions of a virtualization security risk assessment • Understand the business and technical framework for categorizing and prioritizing information and compliance risk as well as phasing in solutions

Whether seeking to lock down payment card information or patient healthcare information, most organizations that are subject to compliance rely on a set of control frameworks to bring order to their access and user administration, configuration and change management, and operations. Virtualization delivers some unprecedented administrative capabilities but simultaneously creates some unforeseen obstacles to compliance initiatives. Please join our discussion where HyTrust will shed light on these challenges and present new strategies to safely navigate a way forward.

The use of virtualization environments in IT organizations continues to grow dramatically. But regulatory requirements still apply to virtual environments. Maintaining control in a virtualized environment will be discussed in more detail. How to control identities by managing & governing identities and what they can access based on their role; how to control access to systems and applications across physical, virtual, & cloud environments; and how organizations can find, classify, and control how information is used based on its content and identity across the physical and virtual environment.

This e-Symposium qualifies for 3 CPE points. To obtain CPE credit, members must download and listen to all event presentations and successfully complete a CPE quiz. To access the quiz, click the CPE button at the top of this page or click the Play button below.