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"Tripwire is vital to reducing the 'thrash' associated with unplanned change. Now we've taken our best staff off of firefighting duties and tasked them with more productive work."
–IP Services, Inc.
The promise of a leaner, meaner data center that provides businesses with more computing power for less money has all types of organisations clamoring to virtualize their data centers. Virtualization supplies infrastructure on demand, turning single physical servers into multiple virtual machines that can run different operating systems and applications and distributing computing resources when and where they're needed.
"Virtualization... can cause issues as well for organisations that do not implement policy-based management tools to administer this new environment. As virtualization increases the risk associated with system failures and 'accidental' downtime, it is more important than ever to detect and control configuration change within this dynamic data center." (Andi Mann, EMA Senior Analyst, EMA IT Advisory Note, March 2007)
Dynamic virtual environments can also introduce security risks if not properly monitored and controlled. To realize the benefits of virtualization while avoiding the pitfalls, IT must develop a strategy that includes effective configuration control to get and keep virtual and physical IT environments in a known, trusted state.
Gain Control of Your Virtual Environment with Tripwire Enterprise
Tripwire, the leader in configuration control for virtual and physical infrastructures, lets you fully benefit from virtualization, confident that your data center's security, integrity, and availability are never compromised. Tripwire Enterprise provides a single point of control to assess, monitor, and detect configuration change in all environments.
| Virtualization Challenges: | How Tripwire Helps: |
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Circumvention of systems resulting in non-complaint servers Workforce getting up to speed increasing the risk of configurations released with security issues |
Ensure a Secure, Reliable Data Center Tripwire's comprehensive configuration assessment of virtual environments against industry regulations and standards, along with continuous change monitoring, allows security professionals to quickly remediate issues to protect systems and data. |
| Configuration Assessment tools that only work in physical, not virtual, environments | Achieve, Maintain, and Report on Your Compliant State Regulatory compliance demands complete accountability for data, system, and process integrity. Tripwire's automatic, out-of-the-box configuration assessments test against key industry regulations and standards for both physical and virtual environments, supporting remediation if an out-of-compliance configuration is detected. It also provides a trail of activity for compliance audits–even for virtual machines that come online in an instant and get removed just as quickly. |
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Configuration and compliance monitoring/reporting a moving target More security vulnerabilities |
Ensure Reliable System and Network Availability and Performance With Tripwire Enterprise, IT can track all elements in their physical and virtual environments from a single point of control. Tripwire correlates both physical and virtual machine configuration settings against security and operational standards and benchmarks, increasing reliability and performance of business-critical systems. Then it monitors and detects improper change, letting IT mitigate issues that could impact availability and performance. |
Tripwire joins VMware Technology Alliance Program
Tripwire has joined the VMware Technology Alliance Program as a Select Partner to help organisations ensure successful operation of their virtual environments. As a member of the VMware TAP program, Tripwire provides configuration control solutions to VMware enterprise customers looking for greater control and proof of compliance within the virtualized data center. This combined solution enables IT to treat a virtual server like any other server when it comes to configuration control.
Read more about the Tripwire - VMware alliance.
