Defending Virtual Servers and Applications (Louisville Infosec)

This is the video of the talk "Virtualizing the Security Architecture: Defending Virtual Servers and Applications" given at Louisville Infosec by Jason Wessel.

Abstract: Will discuss the push of virtualization in the enterprise and how to use virtualization in a manner that does not compromise the security of the enterprise architecture.  The presentation will cover the following areas:

• Drivers that are pushing enterprises to accept virtualization
• The impacts and challenges that virtualization has on designing security into enterprise architectures
• The new threat vectors virtualization introduces in an enterprises
• Defense-in-Depth based strategies for security virtualization in the enterprise

Speaker Bio: Jason Wessel has over 12 years of enterprise security architecture experience as a sec consultant for both large and small to medium sized enterprises. His strength is developing integrated security solutions for complex network environments with numerous custom applications.

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