MORGES, Switzerland, December 6, 2010 /PRNewswire/ -- CA Technologies today announced the results of a new study revealing that many organisations are putting their virtual infrastructures at risk because of inadequate adoption of virtualisation security management measures. 335 decision makers in 15 countries across Europe and the US responded to the CA Technologies commissioned survey, "Security-An Essential Prerequisite for Success in Virtualisation", conducted by KuppingerCole.

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Findings:

- 39% of organizations believe that virtual environments are more difficult to secure than physical environments - Hypervisor privileges and 'data sprawl' are not being sufficiently addressed by current adoption of virtualisation security technologies and policies - 81% of respondents consider data sprawl, defined as the risk of data moving around virtualised IT systems without control, as 'very important' or 'important'. Only 38 % of organisations have implemented Data Loss Prevention (DLP), which effectively mitigates this risk - 73% are concerned that the hypervisor administration accounts (with extensive access privileges and very few limitations or security controls) might lead to mistakes or abuse by privileged users, but only 49% of organisations have neither implemented a privileged user management (PUM) or security log management solution - Most organizations are unaware of the importance of integrating security management with infrastructure management - Too many security activities remain dependent upon manual processes, putting organisational security at risk

"These findings demonstrate that the automation technologies available to mitigate the risks from privileged access in virtualised environments are not yet widely deployed," says Shirief Nosseir, EMEA Product Marketing Director, Security Management, CA Technologies. "If they were, IT organisations could control the risks arising from virtualisation security and ultimately better leverage the benefits of virtualisation."

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