The evolving complexity of the data center is placing increased demand on the network and security teams to come up with inventive methods for enforcing security policies in these ever-changing environments. The goal of this session is to provide participants with an understanding of features and design recommendations for integrating security into the data center environment. This session will focus on recommendations for securing next-generation data center architectures. Areas of focus include security services integration, leveraging device virtualization, and considerations and recommendations for server virtualization. The target audience are security and data center administrators.