Virtualization: Security's Silver Bullet. Bromium, Microsoft, VMware Show The Way

Virtualization has long been used to wring efficiency out of over-sized, under-used systems, but isolating applications and operating systems from the underlying hardware also produces immense flexibility that cloud services like AWS, Azure and Google Cloud exploit to deliver infrastructure on demand. Yet virtualization has become instrumental to solving the most vexing and serious problem facing IT providers and users: security. The trend towards virtualization-enhanced security arguably started last year when VMware updated its network virtualization product, NSX, to support micro-segmentation by stressing its security applications and advantages. But the use of virtualization to create precise zones of protection isn't limited to the network as Microsoft and Bromium recently demonstrated in announcing support for the latter's micro-virtualization technology in Windows 10.