HyTrust Inc., the Cloud Security Automation Company, today announced a new release of HyTrust CloudControl-the virtual appliance
that resides between
administrators and VMware vSphere to add critical role-based access
controls, visibility and secure multi-tenancy to the virtual
infrastructure. Version 4.5 adds new features to augment VMware NSX
micro-segmentation with administrator permissions for the
Software-Defined Data Center (SDDC). The new offering
delivers an
industry-first separation of operator duties and monitoring access to
ensure that only authorized personnel can configure security controls
and policies.
Adoption
of the Software-Defined Data Center architecture has gained traction in
the marketplace because it enables greater agility, scalability and
workload security. As organizations have increasingly virtualized
their infrastructure, often as much as 95 percent of compute, the server-to-server
traffic has grown to represent as much as 80% of overall data center
traffic. Traditional IT security controls focus on perimeter defense
but traffic in the data center is not inspected. Modern-day attacks
exploit this gap, potentially leading to serious breaches. VMware NSX
makes micro-segmentation of network traffic or a zero trust security
model feasible and scalable enabling protection at
the workload level. HyTrust CloudControl 4.5 builds on this capability
to enable authentication and granular role-based access control for NSX
administrators.
"HyTrust
is proud to work with VMware on a solution that provides customers
fine-grained administrative access to configure, control and monitor
security policies for
micro-segments, and we believe this delivers an important capability
for organizations pursuing network virtualization." Said
Eric Chiu, co-founder and
President of HyTrust. "HyTrust customers including some of the largest
F1000 companies in healthcare, financial services and retail who have
already deployed HyTrust's administrative controls can
now expand their deployment to include NSX."
"VMware
NSX is a platform that partners such as HyTrust are leveraging to
provide customers with advanced services that can solve some of their
most pressing data center operational challenges," said VMware.
"Through our collaboration with HyTrust, customers adopting an SDDC
approach can apply HyTrust's role-based access controls to NSX
administrative tasks to easily map to existing operational policies and
separation-of-duties objectives."
The key benefits of the new HyTrust CloudControl
protection for VMware NSX include:
- 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.
VMware
NSX provides network micro-segmentation to deliver controls to segment
workloads within the data center. Administrator controls are also
required to provide the needed segmentation
of administrator roles and policy," said SAIC. "The combination of NSX
and HyTrust CloudControl delivers both fine-grained controls for data
center traffic as well as granular administrator policy controls."
"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."
Pricing & Availability
HyTrust
CloudControl version 4.5 is generally available now and pricing for the
VMware NSX protection starts at $1650 per NSX socket. For more
information on HyTrust CloudControl version 4.5 and new NSX capabilities