Check Point Marries Virtual, Physical Security -or- why PR annoys us.

In the article "Check Point Marries Virtual, Physical Security" over at CSO Online, there are some truths:

"Running virtual machines is easy. It's managing and securing them that's the problem, according to both users and analysts."

No arguments there.  It is when we get down to:

"Check Point claims that it's the "first company to provide unified security management for both physical networks and virtual applications".

That seems like a stretch.  And then there's this:

"The VPN-1 VE is a VMware-certified virtual application, which is designed to secure VMware virtual servers and applications by making them act as if they were on separate physical servers."

Act as if they were on separate physical servers?  Isn't that what the virtualization platform already does (or at least is supposed to do)?

In fairness, the author, Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols, seems a bit skeptical, too.  What do you think?

 

Jack