Render unto Ceasar things which are Ceasar's ...

. . . and unto security vendors things that deal with security.  So it seems to be what Citrix CTO, Simon Crosby is saying in this audio interview on Search Security with Rob Westervelt.  I was all set to write an article on the operationalization of security and all when I noticed that virtuoso of virtual security, Hoff beat me to the punch with his call of BS on Simon.

Hoff is right on.  We can't afford the same old, same old of letting the OS or network vendor or in this case the virtual machine vendor build the product and have a separate security industry bolted on and clean up the mess.  People want secure virtualization, they don't want to think about what they have to buy and install to make their virtual machines secure, they want security designed in from the beginning.  I am surprised that Simon Crosby would even suggest this, it is frankly so 2001.  Lets hope someone over at Citrix takes a que from the VMsafe program and does a little more thinking about security before hand.  We can't afford any other option.