We all know that in an IT organization, the “security person” has very different concerns than the “VMware person.” The “security person” cares about, well, security. New threats emerge every day,  this person’s job could be at risk if a threat gets through. It’s a scary life, if you ask me!

The VMware person has less to worry about in some senses, and more to worry about in others. In the VMware professional’s life, there’s tons to manage, much that could be optimized, and it’s a challenge to continuously provide excellent service availability in a constantly changing datacenter.

…At least, these are the assumptions I have been making. I am beginning to think there is a lot more overlap between security and VMware professionals than traditionally assumed, or maybe this overlap is a growing trend. For one, I think VMware professionals DO care about being secure—they just don’t live and breathe this worry every day. And I think IT security managers do understand that VMware can be secure—they just don’t know how VMware works.

So how well are these two worlds communicating with each other? Below are two responses from the ConfigCheck survey I conduced just before the holidays, and I think the results indicate two things:

• VMware professionals care about security even when they don’t have to report about it to a security manager.
• There is not a lot of dialogue between VMware professionals and security managers—so it’s a damn good thing VMware professionals care about security!
  

So… am I right? If you are reading this and manage VMware, are my assumptions correct? How much do you care about security?

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