Source: http://www.hytrust.com/
The American company-that specializes in security, compliance and control-announced a brand new release of HyTrust CloudControl. It is an industry-first separation of operator duties and monitoring access so just authorized personnel can adjust accordingly security controls along with policies.
This version 4.5 of CloudControl adds newly designed features to increase the VMware NSX micro-segmentation that will grant administrator permissions for the Software-Defined Data Center (SDDC), according to the press release.
The marketplace adoption of the SDDC architecture comes as no surprise since organizations are increasing their virtualization of their infrastructure. In addition, it offers a greater degree of agility, workload security and scalability.
“With its support for NSX, HyTrust CloudControl provides controls needed to enable organizations to implement fine-grained administrator policies for network virtualization,” said Lance Arnold, Chief Technologist for a large program at SAIC. “The network micro-segmentation provided by VMware NSX delivers controls to segment workloads within the data center, but controls are also required to provide the needed segmentation of administrator roles and policy.”
There are key benefits of this recently released HyTrust CloudControl. They are the following:
- “Significant time savings on compliance and audit reporting, along with faster resolution for troubleshooting and advanced reporting on NSX administrative access and changes.”
- “Reduced downtime and service disruption by protecting the virtualized network from process failure or configuration administrative error with change controls.”
- “Ensure authentication and authorization requirements are met for VMware NSX deployments including; two-factor authentication, tokens, TACACS+ and RADIUS, smart cards and AAA servers.”
Late last year the company had rolled out boundary controls for greater security in collaboration with Intel. As HyTrust continues to expand earlier in April, 2015 they had secured new round of funding for the efforts were are seeing at the present time.
“In the SDDC world, organizations need the segmentation of administrative roles, just as they have with physical environments,” said Jon Oltsik, Senior Principal Analyst at Enterprise Strategy Group. “NSX virtualization of the network allows those with access to make changes to the network that otherwise require greater controls. The HyTrust offering can provide an enhanced level of protection without disrupting operations, representing a potential advancement in this important field.”
The HyTrust CloudControl version 4.5 is generally available. The pricing for the VMware NSX protection starts at $1650 per NSX socket. For further information please visit the HyTrust website.
Anthony Carranza 