The VMinformer Community Edition allows security professionals and those tasked with managing virtual infrastructures the ability to assess the overall security configuration of their virtual environment. Critical virtual infrastructure assets can be rapidly assessed against out of the box policy templates based on industry standards such as CIS and PCI benchmarks.

The VMinformer Community Edition is a free, single user version with most of the capabilities of VMinformer PRO.

VMinformer provides:-

• Simple deployment - installs on a laptop or workstation in minutes
• Out of the box policies - based on standard industry benchmarks
• Remediation guidance - helps identify risks to your infrastructure quickly and accurately and provides step by step fix guidance
• No cost start up security solution - provides a free entry level solution for your virtual environment

To download the community edition of the tool follow this link

First UK VirtSec Training course to be offered in London from February 2010. I am just putting the finishing touches to the content and format for this 2 day course. More details will follow shortly if you would like to register your interest in attending this course then please register here.

New features in this release include:-

• multiple virtual data center support
• additional policy templates
• export reports in pdf format

To find out more visit http://www.vminformer.com/buy/trial/

VMinformer PRO will be shipping soon!

Building on the strengths of “VMinformer Standard Edition” the PRO version will give you more enterprise class features such as:

• Standard ticketing system integration
• Entitlement profiling
• Visual Maps
• Further security checks for each VM Guest
• Data export
• Integration with 3rd party management frameworks
• vSphere support

Launch date and further information will be available soon, if you are interested in becoming a beta customer then please register here

A video showing the benefits of VMinformer the #1 security assessment tool for VMware

Rapidly assesses the security of your VMware infrastructure, to see how click here

New version available for download now!

- identifies key security issues rapidly

- provides step by step fix information

- now supports multiple virtual datacentres

Download now from here….

VMinformer is being offered at an amazing 50% discount

This offer is valid until the end of August 09

To download and trial the tool before you buy visit this link

When you are ready to purchase click on the “Buy Now” button and enter the following promo code (summer09)

VMinformer Security Hardening and Remediation Guide

Hot of the press the VMinformer security and remediation guide for your virtual infrastructure.  Includes information on how to secure your VC, ESX Host and VM Guests.  You can download the guide here

A new version of VMinformer is available at www.vminformer.com/downloads

VMadvisor the forum where you can talk about virtualisation security, share thoughts on using security tools and security in general has now been launched, to sign up and see what it’s about go to vmadvisor. We hope you enjoy being part of this new online community…