Recent and pending updates to the CimTrak security software suite will improve customers' VMware infrastructure security. With many companies taking advantage of server virtualization and moving to the cloud every day, the need for IT security in the payment card industry (PCI) or others that require file integrity monitoring software has never been greater.
Virtual VMware hosts can have hundreds of guest operating systems running. For this reason, securing VMware hypervisors from accidental or malicious changes is particularly crucial. VMware’s vCloud service is being adopted by many companies seeking to reduce costs associated with running physical servers in their own IT environment. Addressing IT security and compliance issues as well as understanding the health of a company’s cloud servers is something that keeps many IT managers up at night.
With CimTrak you can rest assured knowing that the organization’s virtual hosts and cloud servers are secure and running smoothly. “Virtualization security starts with the integrity and availability of the host platform. CimTrak ESXi Configuration Monitor provides critical insight and awareness of the status for the underlying system”, Jovo Manojlovic, a Cimcor security engineer, remarked about the company’s VMware philosophy. CimTrak’s VMware ESXi Configuration Monitor monitors all ESXi files for changes.
This includes:
- Host files modifications that can disable guest operating systems and take down critical business applications
- Privilege escalations can allow unauthorized access to systems and allow access to sensitive data
- Changes to vSwitch and other network settings can affect the integrity of the hypervisor
With the CimTrak for Servers application, CimTrak customers monitor cloud servers including those in VMware’s vCloud. CimTrak provides an unprecedented level of IT security around these servers by detecting any change to the operating system or applications running on the virtualized servers. Based on leading-edge file integrity monitoring technology, CimTrak detects, alerts, and reports on changes instantly to vCloud servers providing an extremely high level of situational awareness. Further, CimTrak allows customers to monitor the health of critical server parameters including CPU utilization, memory, and disk space. This gives them real-time insight into their cloud environment and allows them to make sure that it is operating smoothly.
