The vShield Data Security component of the vShield suite is specifically designed to scan virtual machines for governance and compliance violations. vShield Data Security runs at the hypervisor level and provides Data Loss Prevention (DLP) functionality. Specific to each organization's regulatory requirements, over 80 predefined templates are included, covering compliance regulations from around the world. These predefined templates enable the discovery and reporting of sensitive data in unstructured files.

The importance of data regulation is an increasing requirement of internal and external systems. As more mission-critical applications and their associated data move out into the cloud, it is imperative to monitor data integrity and confidentiality. In a pure virtualization environment, all of the data is presumably owned by the same company with virtualization hardware stored in their datacenter. The public cloud, on the other hand, puts forth the concern of data commingling...