Security Response

A quick Google search on the term “virtualization” returns nearly 19million results. The subject has graced the cover of nearly every majorIT trade publication in the past year in probably the past six months.In contrast, search the term “virtual security,” and you’ll be lucky tosee a meager 150,000 hits. Mark my words though—that limited attentionis about to change. As virtualization technology continues to emerge asa viable option for moving from development to production environments,the focus on the security implications of this new IT frontier willreach a tipping point.

With the security threat landscape in an enterprise changing on adaily basis, IT requires more innovative ways to protect desktopendpoints. Evolutionary security enhancements have just managed to keeppace with threats, but it is clear that more revolutionary securitymodels will be needed to protect the desktop in the future.Virtualization may hold the key.

Virtualization changes how IT thinks...