VMworld 2019: From Shared Responsibility to Full Accountability
Governance
As we enter the 2nd decade of cloud adoption, IT’s primary role has shifted from full stack implementation and delivery of technology solutions, to governance of same by SaaS and Cloud providers. Those providers are responsible for the technology layers, whereas IT assumes responsibility for the security and compliance of data in the cloud. That’s the business view of Shared Responsibility in the cloud.
Shared Responsibility
The cloud providers’ view is more nuanced. As widely communicated by AWS and subsequently adopted by MS Azure and Google clouds, Shared Responsibility is essentially a demarcation point of responsibility for cloud provider service delivery vs cloud customer service implementation. That simplistic approach worked well enough in the first decade of cloud adoption. Then came the seminal Capital One data breach, which revealed the complex Shared Reality of cloud security and compliance.
The timing of VMworld 2019 this week could not be better. Hot off the heels of their Carbon Black and Pivotal acquisition announcements, VMware is uniquely positioned with multi-cloud management and control planes for:
Compute (vSphere)
Data (VSAN)
Network (NSX) and
Security (Carbon Black).
With Heptio and now Pivotal, that coverage extends beyond waterfall (lift and shift) monolithic Applications to agile Cloud Native Apps. Ahead of the show, one key technology announcement remains - VMware Blockchain.
Full Accountability
This offering will vault VMware above mere IT shared responsibility features in the cloud, to Full Accountability solutions for the cloud, which is what modern business, customers, partners and regulators are increasingly demanding.
Stakeholders in the 2nd decade of Cloud require deeper IT monitoring and enforcement to govern the complex shared reality of 21st century security and compliance. A well implemented distributed ledger (such as VMware’s Concord blockchain technology) offers absolute, verifiable location-agnostic integrity of compute, data and networking. These are the new primitives of IT security and compliance in the Public, Private, Hybrid and Multi-Cloud.
PowerShell Hardening @ Hands On Lab (HOL)
Come see Chainkit in action at the VMworld 2019 HOL! See how easily you can harden PowerShell via VMware Blockchain. The most popular automation engine among VMware admin and ops teams - is equally popular with Cyber Criminals ‘living off the land’ unleashing ‘fileless’ attacks. This HOL featuring Luc Dekens will show you how to monitor and verify your entire on-prem & multi-cloud desired state even in the face of malicious insider attacks with privileged (Admin/root-level) access.
For all things VMware Security, Compliance, Blockchain, Shared Responsibility and Full Accountability - The Chainkit team is looking forward to meeting you in San Francisco this week. Just Tweet at us or DM to setup a time!