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Mike Foley is a virtualization evangelist in the Technical Marketing Office at RSA, The Security Division of EMC. He has a dual role where he works closely with the product teams in developing and architecting solutions for the virtualization security market and presents and talks to customers at major virtualization and security conferences. Mike’s interests lie mainly in automation, virtualization, IT infrastructure and leveraging those three to provide better security. Mike has also recently submitted his first patent application in this area. Mike is a VMware Certified Professional and has been recognized by VMware as a VMware vExpert since 2008. Mike won’t call himself “a security guy”. It’s not his background. Mike’s an IT/Infrastructure guy who’s been involved with security at various times of his career. He’s taken on as a mission during his time at RSA to bring IT and Security together because only together can we all fight these new and emerging threats. Mike maintains his own personal/professional blog at http://www.yelof.com
In my job, I get to think a lot about where things are going. I’m hearing day in and day out that security is a major stumbling block to fully virtualizing a datacenter and also for “cloud”. In the case of the virtualized datacenter, what many call Private Cloud, this stumble usually happens when the security guy is brought in after the ball is already in motion and promptly puts a stop to things “until it’s secure”.
