Security management, compliance and the cloud

Forrester Research analyzes the past, present and future of security information vendors and products Network/Systems Management Alert NetworkWorld.com | Network Management Research Center | Update Your Profile Sponsored by Network Instruments Performance Monitoring in Virtualized Environments Monitoring and maintaining virtual environments is a new challenge for network pros. Monitoring network and app traffic in an environment containing one-to-many relationships between virtual hosts and virtual machines presents concerns. This paper presents visibility options and their ramifications, and outlines new technology allowing visibility into external and internal traffic in a virtual environment. Spotlight Story Security management, compliance and the cloud By Denise Dubie SIM technology drew in enterprise security managers looking to reduce the noise among multiple security devices distributed in large environments, but lost some ground when IDS and IPS technology gained intelligence. 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