Leveraging Security Policy Orchestration to “Bake Security in” to SDDC Environments

Jan 27, 2015 9:50:24 AM

I have a new guest blog just posted at for Tufin around Security Policy Orchestration. You can check it out here.

It discusses the benefits to using Security Policy Orchestration when defining software-defined data centers (SDDCs). By supporting a centralized security policy across physical and virtual networks via a single interface. Security change management provides many benefits including:

Application discovery and availability monitoring
Service dependency mapping
Change design and workflow automation
Network topology and policy analysis
Policy optimization and violation guidance
Policy violation notification

Take a look at it.

Topics: Data center IT Management David Monahan Scott Crawford SDDC security Security Security Policy Orchestration software-defined data centers

Written by David Monahan

David is a senior information security executive with several years of experience. He has organized and managed both physical and information security programs, including security and network operations (SOCs and NOCs) for organizations ranging from Fortune 100 companies to local government and small public and private companies. He has diverse audit and compliance and risk and privacy experience such as providing strategic and tactical leadership to develop, architect, and deploy assurance controls; delivering process and policy documentation and training; and working on educational and technical solutions.

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