Xceedium, Inc.,
the premier provider of privileged identity management for
hybrid-cloud environments, today announced it is extending Xsuite's
security and audit capabilities to VMware vShield and vCloud®.
Customers using VMware's software-defined datacenter tools and its
Private Cloud and Hybrid Cloud environments can leverage Xsuite to address essential privileged user security and compliance requirements.
Xsuite
already protects guest systems running in VMware vSphere® along
with the VMware management console. Xceedium is extending Xsuite access
control, single sign-on (SSO), and graphical session recording
capabilities to vCloud Director®, vShield Manager, and vSphere Web
Client. Unlike other solutions, Xsuite provides protection for both
host systems running on the VMware hypervisor, and the vSphere and
vCloud management consoles.
"This announcement extends
Xceedium's leading position in privileged identity management for
VMware hybrid-cloud environments," noted Xceedium CEO, Glenn C.
Hazard. "We are pleased to have worked so closely with VMware to
deliver this solution to the marketplace. We intend to continue
this collaboration and quickly integrate Xsuite with VMware NSX
and vCloud Hybrid Services (vCHS) as VMware makes software-defined
datacenters a strategic imperative."
In the wake of the NSA
Snowden breach and similar breaches at commercial organizations,
protecting infrastructure from the risks privileged users and
systems administrators pose has become increasingly important. It
has also spawned additional regulatory scrutiny and new security
requirements for multiple industries including: FedGov/FISMA (NIST
800-53 revision 4), Retail/PCI DSS, and Energy/NERC Critical
Infrastructure Protection (NERC/CIP). Xsuite is specifically designed to
help organizations mitigate privileged user risks and address
these regulatory mandates.