Sourcefire, Citrix and VMware Join Forces in Webinar to Highlight Expanded PCI Virtualization Guidelines
Dubai, United Arab Emirates, July 16, 2011 — Sourcefire, Inc. (Nasdaq: FIRE), the creator of Snort® and a leader in intelligent cybersecurity solutions, today announced that senior security experts from Sourcefire, Citrix and VMware will present a webinar to discuss the impact of the new Payment Card Industry (PCI) Security Standards Council guidelines on customers. The companies will leverage their experience in the security industry and the PCI Council’s Virtualization Special Interest Group (SIG) to provide recommendations for addressing new and more specific PCI security guidelines within virtual environments.
During the presentation, Kurt Roemer, chief security strategist at Citrix, George Gerchow, director of VMware’s Center for Policy and Compliance, and Richard Park, senior product manager at Sourcefire, will offer insights into the effect these new guidelines will have on key PCI requirements. In this webinar, attendees will learn best practices for implementing guidelines within cloud computing and mixed-mode environments, as well as technical insights from sample virtualized reference architectures.
“Understanding PCI’s New Virtualization Guidance”
Who: Kurt Roemer, Chief Security Strategist at Citrix, Chair of PCI Virtualization SIG and Member of PCI Board of Advisors
George Gerchow, Director of VMware Center for Policy and Compliance and PCI Virtualization SIG Member
Richard Park, Senior Product Manager at Sourcefire and PCI
Virtualization SIG Member
When: Tuesday, July 19, 2011, 11:00am – 12:00pm ET
Registration: https://www3.gotomeeting.com/register/906967798
Sourcefire also recently published a report to help customers understand the PCI Council’s new virtualization guidelines. The report explains key PCI requirements affected by virtualization and offers a three-step process for security and virtualization teams to achieve compliance for virtualized platforms. The report can be accessed at http://www.sourcefire.com/pcivirt
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