Blackhawk Technology Consulting LLC Virtualization Security Solution

Blackhawk Technology Consulting LLC’s services and solutions offerings are designed to help your IT organization at any IT life-cycle or stage; from gathering business and technical requirements and specifications, to custom development, all the way through the integration cycle with existing business systems and processes. The Blackhawk Virtualization Security services and solutions are outlined below.

Blackhawk Technology Consulting LLC and Blue Lane: An unbeatable combination

Staying true to the spirit of partnerships from which Blackhawk Technology Consulting LLC has surrounded it with, the partnership between Blue Lane Technologies and Blackhawk Technology Consulting LLC embody and compliment our very own unique consultation and professional services activities. Our strategic association with Blue Lane Technologies has given us the ability to provide businesses with the most comprehensive, reliable, complete and customizable Server virtualization solution available on the market today. This strategic partnership with Blue Lane Technologies allows us to fortify our capabilities and improve upon our existing clients and potential clients Return on Investment (ROI).

Virtualization and Security: Is it possible?

From the looks of things, virtualization is vastly becoming a mainstay in the IT world and it doesn’t look like it is going to go away. While storage and server systems have made their way into the virtualization world, databases and other process and power-hungry applications will most likely not see the virtualization light at the end of the tunnel.

How does security play into the world of virtualization? Once you have taken a number of applications which have been running on separate physical servers, with separate firewalls, Intrusion Detection Systems (IDS) and other security components and toss them into Virtual Machines (VMs) on a single physical system, what will the outcome be? When it comes to all of these virtualization environments, more times than not, the whole question of security becomes a reflection after the fact.

In the ever-growing virtualization arena, the industry at large is struggling with how to ensure that the issue of security in virtualization is not overlooked. Blackhawk Technology Consulting LLC and Blue Lane Technologies have partnered up to provide our clients and potential clients with an answer to the whole virtualization security issue. With the expertise and experience of Blackhawk Technology Consulting LLC’s consultants and the proven expertise of the team at Blue Lane Technologies, Blackhawk and Blue Lane are poised to offer a total and complete server virtualization solution from the assessment phase to the security phase. Don’t be left out!

About Blue Lane Technologies

Server virtualization delivers operational benefits but also introduces some new security challenges. Blue Lane VirtualShield™ is a software based-vulnerability shield that provides instant protection for virtual servers on the VMware® Infrastructure 3 platform. Addressing the unique challenges of virtual server security, VirtualShield™ protects servers inside the hypervisor, including unlatched, out-of-date, temporarily offline, and even unsupported legacy systems.

Blue Lane is a leading provider of vulnerability shields for physical and virtual server infrastructure. Providing instant mitigation for unlatched server vulnerabilities, Blue Lane helps reestablish control of the vulnerability management lifecycle and enables organizations to patch servers on their own timetable. Blue Lane received the InfoWorld Technology of the Year Award in January, 2007.

About The Blue Lane VirtualShield™ Solution

Server virtualization, in its most simplest for, delivers operational benefits and features, but also introduces some new security challenges. Blue Lane VirtualShield™ is a software based-vulnerability shield which provides an immediate protection for virtual servers on the VMware® Infrastructure 3 platform. Addressing the unique and diverse challenges of virtual server security, VirtualShield™ protects servers inside of the hypervisor, including unlatched, out-of-date, temporarily offline, and even unsupported legacy systems.

The VirtualShield™ solution has the ability to protect virtual servers by executing a discovery of all virtual servers on the network, including their applications, services, ports and associated protocols. Once the discovery has completed, VirtualShield™ is able to determine and provision the application-specific protection level for all unlatched and insecure applications.

While the traffic flows through the network, and, ultimately, VirtualShield™, all individual sessions are decoded and monitored for vulnerable states. When it is necessary, VirtualShield™ has the ability to replicate the role of a software security patch by applying a corrective patch directly within the network stream, thereby providing a level of protection for the downstream virtual server.

When new security patches and corrective measures are released by software vendors, VirtualShield™ routinely downloads the correct inline patches and corrective measure from Blue Lane. These updates and corrective measures can be applied without the need for a reboot or reconfigurations to the virtual servers, making it a very seamless and painless process.

The VirtualShield™ Solution Benefits

Some of the benefits that the Blue Lane VirtualShield™ solution can provide for an organizations virtual infrastructure are as follows:

• Protects virtual servers regardless of physical location or patch-level • Eliminates remote threats without blocking legitimate application requests or requiring server reboots • Up-to-date protection with no configuration changes and no agent installation on the host operating system • Delivers appropriate protection for specific applications without requiring any manual tuning

Dynamic Content Delivery benefits:

• Full context decoding within and across sessions for over 70 protocols • Eliminates exploit-bypass situations and false-negatives • Addresses IP-, TCP- and UDP-level evasion techniques such as IP fragmentation and TCP segmentation

Inline patches and corrective measure benefits:

• Individual inline patches correlate one-to-one with the software vendor security patch • Preserves application availability by emulating the corrective action of the vendor patch, rather than employing signatures that are subject to false-positives • Vulnerability-specific, rather than attack-specific, so current and future attack variants and vectors are addressed in a single instance

Session and Asset Manager Benefits:

• Manages inventory of virtual servers, applications, ports and protocols • Maintains full session context of all relevant server transactions

Inline Correction Engine benefits:

• Complete repository of callable functions common to inline patches • Can modify traffic, such as truncating strings or converting Unicode to ASCII • Enables Inline Patches to accurately emulate software patches

Server Discovery

The first step after deploying the Blue Lane VirtualShield™ solution is to define and locate the specific servers and applications which need to be protected. A network scan identifies the servers and applications which are to be protected.

Server Discovery

Validation Process

Within the web-based interface of the VirtualShield™ Manager, a system administrator can easily validate the correct inline patch and inline policy protection has been activated for each individual server application.

Event Detection

Once the servers have been detected, the protection has been validated and activated, any and all events which trigger an inline patch or inline policy correction is logged and reported as a security event.

The Blackhawk and Blue Lane Difference

With the experience in server virtualization and security, the consultants at Blackhawk Technology Consulting LLC can help your business maximize its time and resources by introducing the Blue Lane VirtualShield™ solution into your server virtualization solution. Our experienced and reliable consultants can help your business understand server virtualization technologies and the role which security can play the deployment and implementation of a server virtualization security solution and support. Learn how Blackhawk Technology Consulting LLC and Blue Lane can help you secure your virtual infrastructure today!

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