Implementing an Information Assurance Awareness Program: A case study for the Twenty Critical Security Controls at Consulting Firm X for IT Personnel

With advances in the virtualization market, there are a multitude of techniques to secure workloads that migrate from privately hosted clouds to publicly hosted clouds. With products such as VMware NSX, virtual firewalls, and VSANS becoming more capable on what seems like a daily basis, there is an increasing importance placed on both security and availability as equal considerations. Additionally within this space, securing workloads that use public cloudburst capacity during peak periods across hybrid clouds is another area to design in the appropriate security ahead of the curve. This paper will examine the leading edge of Software Defined Networking and examine the steps necessary to ensure that secure best practices from the physical world can translate to the virtual world in order to ensure seamless customer experiences, business continuity, as well as seamless support for those entrusted with maintaining the environment.