Virtualization and Cloud Security

So you’re looking to the cloud for greater flexibility and less cost. Welcome. You’re joining progressive companies everywhere. But your journey to the cloud will be unique to your business. You might start by evolving your data center, with steps such as consolidating physical server security, virtualizing servers, and determining what type of cloud implementation best suits your business objectives —private, public, or hybrid.

Or you might take the route of supporting consumerization in your workplace—consolidating physical endpoint security, virtualizing your desktops, and deploying cloud-based applications and security to enable your mobile devices to have safe and consistent access to your business data.

Regardless of the approach you take to the cloud, you’ll need a solid security foundation to get you there. As you step through your journey, you’ll need protection that spans across all of your platforms—physical, virtual, cloud:

• Minimize platform-specific threats without compromising performance
• Secure data as it moves between platforms or cloud vendors, regardless of access device
• Maintain consistent security across platforms with seamless management
• Further leverage virtualization and the cloud with virtual appliance and cloud-based security deployment options