Husband, Dad, Geek & Senior Technical Marketing Architect for vSphere Security
Mike Foley
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Dec 15
PowerCLI for VM Encryption
Hi everyone,
I’m happy (ok, beyond happy!) to announce that our VM Encryption engineering team has released a PowerCLI module for VM Encryption! In case you weren’t aware, there’s a Github repository of VMware PowerShell modules. Check them out!
Included in there is the new PowerCLI Module for VM Encryption. It’s chock full of lots of great cmdlets and new VI Properties that make your day to day management of vSphere 6.5 VM Encryption easier to automate. The goal here is to help you operationalize security as easily as possible. If you can’t make security easy to incorporate into your day to day operations then people will find a way to not do it.
Encrypting a VM shouldn’t mean having to manage an encryption solution IN the VM. It should be as simple as “Get-VM” and piping that to “Enable-VMEncryption”, right? Well, with VM Encryption it IS! Let’s take a look.
Nov 08
vSphere 6.5 Security – Social Media Links
vSphere 6.5 is announced and the interest for the security features has been off the hook! My phone has been ringing like mad and emails are coming in fast and furious from customers and VMware field folks with “Where can I learn more???”. With that in mind, I’ve created this blog post as a repository of social media links that are devoted to vSphere 6.5 Security “stuff”.
Apr 19
Supported vSphere vCenter and ESXi Ciphers
Hi everyone,
One question that comes up regularly is “What ciphers are supported on vCenter and ESXi?”. I’m happy to share that we have published a VMware Knowledge Base article outlining the supported ciphers!
With all of the challenges around SSL/TLS the past year or two, having a solid idea of what ciphers are being used is becoming critical information that is necessary for IT and security teams to do their jobs.
Rather than list the ciphers here, I’ll just point you at the KB as it will be the central repository for this information and will be updated as necessary.