New free training course from VMware, which is available online. Note that an account at VMware Learning required at VMware Education, but you can register for free there. You'll be able to learn about VMware Security Suite which is available as a part of the vSphere Essentislas Plus package as a VMware vCloud Networking and Security 5.1.2.
The course is called VMware Security Solution Fundamentals and discusses the VMware security strategy.
Each product in the VMware Security Solution is introduced by discussing the limitations of traditional security controls and describing how the products in the solution address these limitations. The course concludes with a list of relevant security and compliance online resources.
The UI is Adobe flash driven, where you can pause, resume or stop the course during your learning. The sound quality is excellent. You'll learn all the components of the vShield Suite:
- vShield Manager
- vShield Edge
- vShield Data Security – a hypervisor based tool.
In addition, the learning will teach you about free assessment tool called vSphere Compliance Checker – a tool that I detailed in my article. The VMware Security Fundamentals course detailed page is here.
When complete, you should be able to know more about the VMware Security suite and you should be able to:
- Recognize the process and strategies that security managers use to manage risks to information and information systems
- Name ways that virtualization affects security and compliance
- List the top vulnerabilities applicable to virtual environments
- Explain the basic strategy to protect a virtual environment
- Name the main purpose of each product included in the VMware security solution
- For each product in the VMware security solution, discuss how key features address the challenges of securing virtual environments with traditional security controls
- Find additional security and compliance resources posted on vmware.com
Complete set of networking and security features, as determined by the appropriate edition, are available to customers who have purchased either VMware vCloud Networking and Security product or vCloud Suites.
Source: VMware
