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Designing Virtual Network Security Architectures

With the advent of virtualization and software-defined networking (SDN), the nature and design of today’s networks are changing rapidly. Network security models need to adapt to the virtual data center, and there are a plethora of new technologies that can help security and operations teams design scalable network security architectures that work in highly virtualized environments.

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Dave Shackleford ( @daveshackleford ) 

Dave Shackleford is Lead Faculty at IANS, Owner and Principal Consultant at Voodoo Security and a SANS Senior Instructor and Course Author. He has consulted with hundreds of organizations in the areas of security, compliance and network architecture and engineering, and is a VMware vExpert with extensive experience designing and configuring secure virtualized infrastructures. He previously worked as CTO at IANS, CSO for Configuresoft, CTO for the Center for Internet Security, and as a security architect, analyst, and manager for several Fortune 500 companies. Shackleford is the author of Virtualization Security: Protecting Virtualized Environments, currently serves on the Board of Directors at the SANS Technology Institute and helps lead the Atlanta chapter of the Cloud Security Alliance. 

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