Virtual machine security – offloading the endpoint

Now that virtual machines (VMs) have moved into core workload deployments, guest VM endpoint workloads have a more serious impact on overall performance, and security at every endpoint seems like duplication of effort. If many endpoints’ traffic pass through the VM host, why not move security there, and sort of catch ‘bad things’ before they even enter the endpoint?

Offloading security, or really, pushing the heavy lifting – security wise – to the core of a server with lots of processing and network power seems like smart optimization. That, in conjunction with the efforts to produce thinner and thinner clients, capable of performing small tasks, rather than the all-in-one PCs of yesteryear, makes the core VM host server security option a natural fit.

Virtual machine security – offloading the endpoint