SAN FRANCISCO / RSA CONFERENCE, March 05, 2019 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- This week at the RSA Conference, VMware, Inc. (NYSE:VMW), detailed the company's strategy to help organizations turn the advantage from attackers to defenders with a new security approach that focuses on applications more than infrastructure, and shrinks the attack surface rather than chasing threats. With a broadening portfolio of software-based solutions that span the cloud to the end user, VMware makes security intrinsic to the infrastructure so customers can lock down the known good behavior of applications and significantly reduce the risk to critical applications, sensitive data, and users. These offerings are on display this week at the RSA Conference in the Moscone North Expo, booth #5655. Learn more about VMware's security strategy and portfolio here.
At the conference, VMware CEO Pat Gelsinger will be joined by Intuit DevSecOps Leader Shannon Lietz in a keynote address on Thursday, March 7, 2019 at 4:00 p.m. PST. In this keynote, Gelsinger and Lietz will share observations on areas where the security industry can move beyond incremental gains and drive major, substantial steps forward.
"Security, for the most part, is not working," said Rajiv Ramaswami, chief operating officer, products and services, VMware. "Applications are more distributed, deployed across multiple private and public clouds, using many different types of infrastructure and accessed from many different devices. Security sprawl - too many products, agents, and interfaces deployed across an organization - creates complexity for security management. VMware's strategy is to remove the complexity inherent with security today and deliver security that is intrinsic from endpoint to cloud."
As organizations race to implement digital transformation initiatives, they are faced with a complex environment that favors attackers. According to Ponemon Institute, "data breaches continue to be costlier and result in more consumer records being lost or stolen, year after year" and with the average total cost of a data breach being $3.86M(1). At the same time, worldwide spending on security-related hardware, software, and services is forecast to reach $133.7 billion in 2022, an increase of more than 45 percent over the forecast for 2018, according to IDC(2).
VMware believes the industry needs to shift from a model centered on chasing bad to one focused on ensuring good, and to focus on applications rather than infrastructure. VMware brings major innovations to this domain by leveraging the unique properties of the virtual and mobile infrastructure. This approach simplifies security, making it intrinsic rather than bolted on, and aligns security to apps and data. Because of where VMware technology is in the infrastructure stack, VMware can deliver unprecedented visibility into applications and extend beyond the datacenter to deliver a more secure digital workspace, helping secure any device for any employee who accesses apps and data from anywhere. Today, VMware's security focuses on securing data centers, clouds and the digital workspace:
1-2018 Cost of Data Breach Study: Global Overview. July 2018. Benchmark research sponsored by IBM Security and Independently conducted by Ponemon Institute LLC
2-Worldwide Semiannual Security Spending Guidefrom International Data Corporation (IDC), October 2018.
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