VMware White Paper Sample

It’s a fact of business today: because of the economy, most organizations are asking everyone, including the IT staff, to do more with less. But tight budgets and the need for the IT department to be a “jack of all trades” (and specialists at nothing) could leave organizations vulnerable to attack.

Setting up secure borders at the datacenter is no longer enough. Security must extend to virtual machines and the endpoints that connect to the network. But managing patch updates for these resources can be a complicated process. The sheer numbers of endpoints make it almost impossible for the IT staff to update each one individually, and the limited visibility the department has into the endpoints’ configurations can make it even more of a challenge. Also impacting security is the fact that the IT staff may not be able to keep up with the latest threats, research issues of concern to the fullest extent and understand the magnitude of the threats since they are unable to direct all their attention to security matters.