MORGES, Switzerland,
December 6, 2010 /PRNewswire/ -- CA
Technologies (NASDAQ:CA) today announced the results of a new study
revealing that many organisations are putting their virtual
infrastructures at risk because of inadequate adoption of
virtualisation security management measures. 335 decision makers in
15 countries across Europe and the
US responded to the CA Technologies commissioned survey,
"Security-An Essential Prerequisite for Success in Virtualisation",
conducted by KuppingerCole.
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Findings:
- 39% of organizations believe that virtual environments are more
difficult to secure than physical environments
- Hypervisor privileges and 'data sprawl' are not being sufficiently
addressed by current adoption of virtualisation security technologies
and policies
- 81% of respondents consider data sprawl, defined as the risk of data
moving around virtualised IT systems without control, as 'very
important' or 'important'. Only 38 % of organisations have
implemented Data Loss Prevention (DLP), which effectively mitigates
this risk
- 73% are concerned that the hypervisor administration accounts (with
extensive access privileges and very few limitations or security
controls) might lead to mistakes or abuse by privileged users, but
only 49% of organisations have neither implemented a privileged
user management (PUM) or security log management solution
- Most organizations are unaware of the importance of integrating
security management with infrastructure management
- Too many security activities remain dependent upon manual processes,
putting organisational security at risk
"These findings demonstrate that the automation technologies
available to mitigate the risks from privileged access in
virtualised environments are not yet widely deployed," says Shirief
Nosseir, EMEA Product Marketing Director, Security Management, CA
Technologies. "If they were, IT organisations could control the
risks arising from virtualisation security and ultimately better
leverage the benefits of virtualisation."
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