I have been asked a few times about details of the Federal track at VMworld this year in Las Vegas so I thought I would just post the information here for convenience.

Note that all the Federal sessions are security and/or compliance related:

Session ID and Title

• CAP1992 Building Resilient, High Performance, Distributed Applications that are Data-Intensive
• SEC1544 Compliance and Trust in the Cloud
• SEC1747 Desktop Security Zones with VMware View and vShield App: A Reference Architecture Review
• SEC1980 Department of Defense Reference Architecture using vShield
• SEC2114 Customer Panel: Ensuring Compliance in a Virtual World
• SEC2162 Achieving a Trusted Cloud
• SEC2192 Case Study: Building a Virtual Data Center at the Department of Homeland Security to Meet FISMA Moderate to High Data Security Requirements
• SEC2942 Building Trusted Clouds – Proof Points not Promises
• EUC1988 Case Study: Using VMware View to Strengthen Disaster Response Systems for Federal Agencies
• SEC2284 Securing Government Virtual Environments: Part II
• EUC2048 Panel Discussion: Modernizing the Desktop to Provide Better Business Continuity while Reducing Operational Costs for State and Local Government

Aside from helping prepare some of the compliance sessions I am presenting on the art of applying penetration testing skills to the cloud. And I’ve been asked to sit on a PCI expert panel. Hope to see you there:

• SEC1236 Penetration Testing the Cloud
• SEC2484 PCI-DSS Compliant Cloud—Design and Architecture Best Practices

Come see how far things have progressed since the early days of VMware