From Virtualization.com comes the news that VMware has acquired BlueLane Technologies

BlueLane is the maker of solutions that protect both physical and logical infrastructure which includes ServerShield and VirtualShield.  The company has of late focused wisely on
the latter which provides application-aware firewalling, inter-VM flow visibility and analytics, application policy control, and intrusion prevention capabilities.

Coupled with the introspection capabilities provided by VMware's vNetwork/VMsafe API's natively, the integration of BlueLane's solution sets will add to the basal capabilities of the platform itself and will allow customers the flexibility to construct more secure virtualized operating environments.

The notion of enabling in-line patch-proxying as well as the "IPS-like" in-line vulnerability mitigation capabilities for VM's and additional VMM protection make this very interesting indeed.  You can read more about BlueLane's approach on their website.  I also interviewed Allwyn Sequeira on my blog.

To learn more and to read the entire article at its source, please refer to the following page, Rational Survivability: VMware Acquires BlueLane: Further Differentiation Through Security

  

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