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RSA, The Security Division of EMC unveiled a shared vision with Intel Corporation and VMware, Inc. for building a more secure, transparent and accountable infrastructure for business-critical cloud services. This vision, leveraging technology and expertise from EMCs RSA Security Division as well as from Intel and VMware, is described in a newly released RSA Security Brief titled Infrastructure Security: Getting to the Bottom of Compliance in the Cloud and is demonstrated through an innovative proof of concept which debuted at this weeks RSA Conference in San Francisco.

For the cloud to mature into an enterprise-grade platform running high-value business processes and data, we must be able to trust the security of the underlying physical and virtual infrastructure without question, said Pat Gelsinger, President and Chief Operating Officer, EMC Information Infrastructure Products. Today most organizations have little to no visibility into whats occurring within the infrastructure layers of clouds, making it impossible to verify their security. Together our companies are demonstrating that internal and external clouds can be visible, measurable and reportable for the secure management of a companys most important business processes.


RSA, Intel, VMware and GRC experts from Archer Technologies (recently acquired by EMC), have demonstrated a vision for a trusted cloud infrastructure that promises to deliver significant operational benefits for organizations and service providers running private clouds.

This concept comprising a hardware root of trust, secure virtualization environment, security information and event management and GRC management software provides truly unprecedented visibility into actual conditions within the bottom-most layers of the cloud.

The foundation for this new trusted computing infrastructure is a hardware root of trust derived from Intel Trusted Execution Technology (TXT), which authenticates each and every step of the boot sequence, from verifying hardware configurations and initializing the BIOS to launching the hypervisor. Once launched, the VMware virtualization environment collects data from both the hardware and virtual layers and feeds a continuous, raw data stream to the RSA enVision Security Information and Event Management platform. The RSA enVision solution is engineered to analyze events coming through the virtualization layer to identify incidents and conditions affecting security and compliance. The information is then contextualized within the Archer SmartSuite Framework solution, which is designed to present a unified, policy-based assessment of the organizations security and compliance posture through a central dashboard.