<p>HyTrust said it updated its role monitoring appliance for virtual environments with the ability to evaluate every user operation and issue an alert if and when user behavior conflicts with an assigned role.</p><p>HyTrust Appliance 3.5 monitors, logs and evaluates administrative actions and compares what users are doing to what they are permitted to do in order to prevent security breaches such as copying a virtual machine with confidential data, deleting the entire virtual data center, or misconfiguring workloads in a shared infrastructure.Webcasts More >>White Papers More >>Reports More >></p><p>Additional capabilities in the new appliance include granular role-based and resource-based authorization, logs that enable audit trails tied to individual user activity, and multi-factor authentication. It also includes support for VMware's Security Hardening Guide 5.1.</p><p>Judith Hurwitz, president of research firm Hurwitz & Associates, said one of the biggest risks inherent in virtualization is how easy it is to set up a virtual image that opens up potential security holes, particularly images that have been abandoned. Threats may come from departed employees with privileges that have not been revoked.</p><p><a href="http://www.networkcomputing.com/next-generation-data-center/servers/hytrust-tracks-users-in-virtual-environm/240161300">Keep reading...</a></p>