Vendor Report: CA Technologies Virtualization Security

Virtualization Security is not a single product category but comprises several different types of solutions from different categories, including IAM (Identity and Access Management), information protection, service automation, service assurance, service management, as well as system security solutions for hardening and monitoring resources. In order to be effective, Virtualization Security has to be well planned and requires a set of well-integrated products to provide the right balance between security and risk mitigation on one hand, and costs and complexity on the other.

CA Technologies offers a broad range of products which support customers in implementing Virtualization Security. CA Technologies specific strengths are not only that core security is provided but also IT service automation, assurance, management and other areas are covered as well. Furthermore, CA Technologies has clearly understood that Virtualization Security is not just about having yet another security tool but it is actually about enhancing the existing technologies and enabling them to seamlessly manage heterogeneous physical and virtual environments – in private and public environments (“clouds”). A specific strength for CA Technologies is what they call content-aware IAM, which is about enhancing the scope of IAM to extend to information protection and control through integrating IAM and DLP (Data Leakage Prevention) domains, thus ensuring that information access is well managed at any point of time.