Karl MacMillan is Tresys Technology's Director of the Linux Security Practice, author of "SELinux by Example: Using Security Enhanced Linux," and frequent speaker at virtualization, security and open source events nationwide. With experience spanning dozens of successful strong security implementations, delivering security products and services for some of the most sensitive security missions around the world, including those at defense and intelligence agencies globally, and through partnerships with IBM, General Dynamics, Red Hat and Cisco, Karl is an established security thought leader.
Server virtualization has moved well beyond the arena of early adopters and
is an accepted solution to many of the challenges faced by IT organizations.
However, desktop virtualization has not made the same inroads. Certainly,
there have been some key uses for desktop virtualization, such as development
and test, but there has not been broad penetration into the non-technical
desktop market. There are signs that this trend is about to change.
The major virtualization vendors, including Citrix, VMware, and Microsoft,
have recently released new or updated desktop virtualization products that
aim to make virtualization as common on the desktop as in the data center.
The value proposition is largely the same as on the server: rapid deployment,
better hardware utilization, easier management, and increased separation of
workloads.
At the same time, security and compliance... (more)
Karl MacMillan is Tresys Technology's Director of the Linux Security Practice, author of "SELinux by Example: Using Security Enhanced Linux," and frequent speaker at virtualization, security and open source events nationwide. With experience spanning dozens of successful strong security implementations, delivering security products and services for some of the most sensitive security missions around the world, including those at defense and intelligence agencies globally, and through partnerships with IBM, General Dynamics, Red Hat and Cisco, Karl is an established security thought leader. 
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