With VMworld Europe 2008 behind us, looking back, one of the more interesting announcements from the show was around virtualization security and VMware's VMsafe. VMsafe is the company's new security architecture that includes an API for security vendors to gain much needed access to the hypervisor layer. According to VMware, the APIs will allow its partners to develop security solutions for virtualized applications in ways previously not possible with physical environments. As virtualization continues to gain in popularity, so too will it grow to become more of a target to malicious code writers. VMware's thin hypervisor code has thus far... READ MORE