Catbird's vSecurity weaves multi-function security directly into the fabric of virtual and cloud infrastructure.
Catbird, a specialist in
security and compliance for virtual, cloud and physical networks, announced
that VMware vShield App controls are now available for Catbird vSecurity
through an embedded OEM partnership with VMware. The integration gives Catbird
vSecurity customers the ability to deploy VMware vShield App as an integrated
component of Catbirds security and compliance solution for virtualized
infrastructure.
With the addition of VMware
vShield into vSecuritys Control Center, Catbirds vCompliance engine now
measures and monitors the application of VMware vShield App controls to popular
compliance standards, including PCI (Peripheral Component Interconnect, NIST
(National Institute of Standards and Technology), FISMA (Federal Information
Security Management Act), DIACAP (DOD Information Assurance
Certification and Accreditation Process) and HIPAA (Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act).
In addition, Catbird Trustzones can
enforce logical segmentation and automated quarantining of assets based on
compliance levels, helping reduce the risk of security breach, data loss and
compliance audit violations. Catbird customers can also leverage the firewall
features of VMware vShield App to automatically segment the virtual switching
fabric
Customers are eager to
virtualize sensitive systems, such as PCI payment processing, and integrating
VMware vShield App into vSecurity reduces the complexity of meeting such audit
requirements, said Edmundo Costa, Catbird CEO. Catbirds award-winning
security orchestration now incorporates VMware vShield App for native
application-aware access control and deep-packet inspection, delivering
world-class protection for organizations regulated by specifications, such as
PCI, HIPAA and NIST.
Catbirds vSecurity weaves
multi-function security directly into the fabric of virtual and cloud
infrastructure. Available controls include vulnerability management, IPS/IDS,
network segmentation, policy enforcement, inventory, configuration and change
management, as well as monitoring and enforcement in many other operational,
security and compliance areas. Catbirds feature set allows its customers to
meet a variety of compliance standards, including PCI, NIST, SOX
(Sarbanes-Oxley Act), HIPAA, DIACAP and FISMA, in virtual environments.
As regulated industries
virtualize, they need to ensure their processes and tools for security and
compliance adapt to this new environment, said Parag Patel, vice president,
Global Strategic Alliances, VMware. VMwares integration with Catbird is an
important move in enabling our customers to proactively ensure compliance while
leveraging native technology and an award-winning partner in our ecosystem.
Catbird's approach weaves
together access control, intrusion detection, secure auditing and automated
protection for virtual machines, virtual networks, hypervisor management and
associated physical assets. With the release of vSecurity 5.0 in January,
Catbird incorporated features like an event viewer, which orchestrates and
displays data culled from a range of controls, including nprobe, firewall, NAC,
IDS/IPS and other sources, to paint a picture of what each control is detecting
in real time. The event viewer provides analysis of the security posture of each
asset, as well as the interrelationships between assets, to determine risks and
vulnerabilities.
Nathan Eddy is Associate Editor, Midmarket, at eWEEK.com. Before joining eWEEK.com, Nate was a writer with ChannelWeb and he served as an editor at FierceMarkets. He is a graduate of the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University.
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