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DMTF Redfish 1.0 released

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Redfish, an IPMI replacement, has shipped the first release of their spec. Quoting the press release:

DMTF Helps Enable Multi-Vendor Data Center Management with New Redfish 1.0 Standard

DMTF has announced the release of  Redfish 1.0, a standard for data center and systems management that delivers improved performance, functionality, scalability and security. Designed to meet the expectations of end users for simple and interoperable management of modern scalable platform hardware, Redfish takes advantage of widely-used technologies to speed implementation and help system administrators be more effective. Redfish is developed by the DMTF’s Scalable Platforms Management Forum (SPMF), which is led by Broadcom, Dell, Emerson, HP, Intel, Lenovo, Microsoft, Supermicro and VMware with additional support from AMI, Oracle, Fujitsu, Huawei, Mellanox and Seagate. The release of the Redfish 1.0 standard by the DMTF demonstrates the broad industry support of the full organization.

http://dmtf.org/standards/redfish
http://dmtf.org/join/spmf

Don’t forget to grab the Redfish “Mockup” as well as the specs and schema.

UEFI 2.5 has a JSON API to enable accessing Redfish. HP was first vendor with systems that supported UEFI 2.5’s new HTTP Boot, a PXE replacement.  Intel checked in HTTP Boot support into TianoCore, so it’s just a matter of time until other vendors have similar products. JSON-based Redfish and HTTP-based booting makes UEFI much more of a “web app”, w/r/t security research, and the need for system administrators to more closely examine how firmware is updated on their systems, to best protect them.
https://firmwaresecurity.com/tag/uefi-http-boot/

VMWare partners with Intel Security for cloud IPS service

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A few days ago, VMWare announced a solution with Intel/McAfee for additional security. McAfee Network Security Platform (NSP) service will be providing Intrusion Prevension Services (IPS) for their data center. McAfee was acquired by Intel Security. It wasn’t clear from the press release how virtual firmware is impacted with this new security service.

“This collaboration between VMware and Intel Security delivers clear value for our mutual customers, enabling them to have consistently high levels of threat protection for traffic both inside the data center and at the data center perimeter. The tight integration between VMware NSX and Intel Security’s McAfee NSP means security controls follow application workloads, allowing customers to dynamically scale security services,” said Tom Corn, Senior Vice President, Security Products, VMware.

“With the Intel Security and VMware integration, McAfee NSP provides integration within VMware NSX to allow customers to apply advanced security capabilities for the protection of east-west traffic in the data center, which makes up the majority of traffic in these environments.  The McAfee NSP takes advantage of the VMware NSX platform’s distributed micro-segmentation enforcement and simplified automated provisioning, creating a zero-trust environment to automatically help protect organizations’ assets against advanced threats,” said Raja Patel, General Manager for the Network Security Business Unit, Intel Security.

More Information:

http://www.vmware.com/company/news/releases/vmw-newsfeed/Intel-Security-and-VMware-Announce-Intgrated-Solution-For-Automating-And-Accelerating-Advanced-Security-Services-Deployment/2892242-manual