Tom Barsi, SVP, Business Development, Carbon Black, talks with John Walls & Dave Vellante at VMworld 2019 from Moscone North in San Francisco, CA.
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Years in the making: Carbon Black is the capstone for VMware’s security business strategy
(This article has been updated with an extended review of Carbon Black to reflect Tom Barsi’s selection as theCUBE’s Guest of the Week.)
Don’t look now, but VMware Inc. has built a significant cybersecurity practice.
The August acquisition of Carbon Black Inc. for $2.1 billion represented a major step forward for the network virtualization vendor’s security business, yet the seeds were sown long before that.
The firm’s acquisition of AirWatch in 2014 gave it tools for mobile device security, and, in 2016, VMware deployed its “micro-segmentation” strategy for enabling security as part of its flagship NSX product.
The real push into the security realm didn’t begin until 2018. In the first half of that year, VMware bought CloudCoreo, a cloud security startup, purchased E8 Security, provider of artificial intelligence-assisted security tools, and added Tom Gillis, a security software industry veteran and co-founder of Bracket Computing Inc., to its executive team.
On August 15, VMware bought Veriflow, a network monitoring and verification firm and, less than a week afterward, purchased security startup Intrinsic. Forty-eight hours later, Carbon Black was suddenly part of the company as well.
“We dated, and it just became obvious that there was so much synergy between our leadership and theirs,” said Tom Barsi (pictured), senior vice president of business development at Carbon Black. “It was a super exciting week, and the culmination of a lot of work among an army of people to get us to where we are. There really is an opportunity to transform the industry.”
Barsi spoke with Dave Vellante and John Walls, co-hosts of theCUBE, SiliconANGLE Media’s mobile livestreaming studio, during the VMworld event in San Francisco. They discussed Carbon Black’s previous work to integrate its technology into VMware’s products, the need to bridge security operations with information technology administration, how the new parent company’s track record with other acquisitions offered promise for Barsi’s firm and a mutual goal to make security intrinsic in the enterprise (see the full interview with transcript here).
This week, theCUBE features Tom Barsi as its Guest of the Week.
Fixing ‘broken’ industry
VMware executives don’t pull punches when they speak publicly about security. Their narrative is that security is a mess, and VMware intends to do something about it.
“It’s a broken industry with 5,000 vendors,” declared Sanjay Poonen, chief operating officer of customer operations for VMware, during his keynote remarks at VMworld 2019. “We looked at this industry and said, ‘There’s got to be a better way.’”
A glimpse into how VMware expects to address the security problem can be seen in its previous work with Carbon Black before the acquisition. Prior to VMware’s purchase, the companies had worked together for over two years, beginning with an integration to protect workloads through VMware’s AppDefense offering.
“We built that integration exclusively,” Barsi said. “For the first time, the security operations center had been able to have visibility into the hypervisor. That’s when we started to see the potential and the opportunity.”
Removing security friction
In addition to its workload protection through VMware’s AppDefense, Carbon Black provides endpoint detection and response, known as EDR, along with next-generation antivirus tools. The firm also offers LiveOps, a real-time endpoint query solution designed to provide system administrators with the ability to perform investigations and remote remediation from a single cloud-native protection platform.
Carbon Black sees its role as an enabler of closer ties between security operations centers and IT operations staff.
“We see the opportunity to eliminate that friction and create an opportunity between those two,” Barsi said. “There’s friction because the ‘SecOps guys’ are saying, ‘Take the server down if there’s a problem’ and ‘IT ops guys’ are saying, ‘I’ve got runtime; I’ve got to keep it up.’ Now you have the opportunity to identify a threat and the ability to seamlessly leverage VMware’s infrastructure management tools to instantly remediate and orchestrate a problem without the conflict with IT and security operations.”
From second to first
A case could be made that VMware’s multi-billion-dollar acquisitions have turned out fairly well. The company bought Nicira for $1.2 billion in 2012, which laid the groundwork for VMware’s highly successful software-defined networking product — NSX.
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Tom Barsi, SVP, Business Development, Carbon Black, talks with John Walls & Dave Vellante at VMworld 2019 from Moscone North in San Francisco, CA.
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https://siliconangle.com/2019/08/30/carbons-blacks-relationship-with-vmware-started-well-before-acquisition-vmworld-guestoftheweek/
Years in the making: Carbon Black is the capstone for VMware’s security business strategy
(This article has been updated with an extended review of Carbon Black to reflect Tom Barsi’s selection as theCUBE’s Guest of the Week.)
Don’t look now, but VMware Inc. has built a significant cybersecurity practice.
The August acquisition of Carbon Black Inc. for $2.1 billion represented a major step forward for the network virtualization vendor’s security business, yet the seeds were sown long before that.
The firm’s acquisition of AirWatch in 2014 gave it tools for mobile device security, and, in 2016, VMware deployed its “micro-segmentation” strategy for enabling security as part of its flagship NSX product.
The real push into the security realm didn’t begin until 2018. In the first half of that year, VMware bought CloudCoreo, a cloud security startup, purchased E8 Security, provider of artificial intelligence-assisted security tools, and added Tom Gillis, a security software industry veteran and co-founder of Bracket Computing Inc., to its executive team.
On August 15, VMware bought Veriflow, a network monitoring and verification firm and, less than a week afterward, purchased security startup Intrinsic. Forty-eight hours later, Carbon Black was suddenly part of the company as well.
“We dated, and it just became obvious that there was so much synergy between our leadership and theirs,” said Tom Barsi (pictured), senior vice president of business development at Carbon Black. “It was a super exciting week, and the culmination of a lot of work among an army of people to get us to where we are. There really is an opportunity to transform the industry.”
Barsi spoke with Dave Vellante and John Walls, co-hosts of theCUBE, SiliconANGLE Media’s mobile livestreaming studio, during the VMworld event in San Francisco. They discussed Carbon Black’s previous work to integrate its technology into VMware’s products, the need to bridge security operations with information technology administration, how the new parent company’s track record with other acquisitions offered promise for Barsi’s firm and a mutual goal to make security intrinsic in the enterprise (see the full interview with transcript here).
This week, theCUBE features Tom Barsi as its Guest of the Week.
Fixing ‘broken’ industry
VMware executives don’t pull punches when they speak publicly about security. Their narrative is that security is a mess, and VMware intends to do something about it.
“It’s a broken industry with 5,000 vendors,” declared Sanjay Poonen, chief operating officer of customer operations for VMware, during his keynote remarks at VMworld 2019. “We looked at this industry and said, ‘There’s got to be a better way.’”
A glimpse into how VMware expects to address the security problem can be seen in its previous work with Carbon Black before the acquisition. Prior to VMware’s purchase, the companies had worked together for over two years, beginning with an integration to protect workloads through VMware’s AppDefense offering.
“We built that integration exclusively,” Barsi said. “For the first time, the security operations center had been able to have visibility into the hypervisor. That’s when we started to see the potential and the opportunity.”
Removing security friction
In addition to its workload protection through VMware’s AppDefense, Carbon Black provides endpoint detection and response, known as EDR, along with next-generation antivirus tools. The firm also offers LiveOps, a real-time endpoint query solution designed to provide system administrators with the ability to perform investigations and remote remediation from a single cloud-native protection platform.
Carbon Black sees its role as an enabler of closer ties between security operations centers and IT operations staff.
“We see the opportunity to eliminate that friction and create an opportunity between those two,” Barsi said. “There’s friction because the ‘SecOps guys’ are saying, ‘Take the server down if there’s a problem’ and ‘IT ops guys’ are saying, ‘I’ve got runtime; I’ve got to keep it up.’ Now you have the opportunity to identify a threat and the ability to seamlessly leverage VMware’s infrastructure management tools to instantly remediate and orchestrate a problem without the conflict with IT and security operations.”
From second to first
A case could be made that VMware’s multi-billion-dollar acquisitions have turned out fairly well. The company bought Nicira for $1.2 billion in 2012, which laid the groundwork for VMware’s highly successful software-defined networking product — NSX.
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