Virtualization Foundation

Foundation Management seamlessly incorporates virtualization technologies, including hypervisors and virtual machines, into the Foundation Management approach to address the challenge of the Insider Threat, successfully meet the intent and interpretation of compliance regulations, improve the efficiency of IT operations and increase the ability of IT services to deliver against Service Level Agreements and other Key Performance Indicators.

Foundation Management includes securing privileged interfaces on both VMs and hardware hosts.

By extending the Foundation Management model to virtualization technologies the Virtualization Foundation:

• Secures privileged interfaces across both physical and virtual technologies
• Produces forensic evidence logs of events and action that retain continuity even when VMs "move" across physical hosts
• Extends all of the Foundation Management benefits to virtual machines and hypervisors as an integrated system

Virtual Component Architecture

With virtualization technologies, the traditional component architecture of a physical computing device is altered as follows:

• The Operating System is replaced by a Hypervisor
• The Program(s) are replaced by one or more Virtual Machines

However, each Virtual Machine represents an instance of component architecture having:

• A pseudo console (privileged interface)
• An operating system
• One or more programs

Foundation Management secures, monitors, manages, and logs at the physical host and at each and every Virtual Machine. In addition, Foundation Management retains continuity of the audit trail behind VMs, even when they move across physical hosts.

The Virtualization Foundation from TDi Technologies® extends all of the benefits of Foundation Management to virtualization technologies. Where virtualization is employed, Foundation Management addresses the Insider Threat, meeting the intent and interpretation of compliance regulations, improving IT operations efficiency and retaining delivery against Service Level Agreements and other Key Performance Indicators.