Posted on Monday, December 15th, 2008 at 4:51 pm
Mitigating the security risks of virtualization
Enterprise Management Quarterly
A commonly used approach for securing VMs is to use prior configuration guidelines, standards and tools that were used in the past for securing physical servers. Although this approach is a start, it fails to address the security ramifications of having multiple platforms on the same physical machine. Simply applying the technologies and best practices for securing physical servers will not provide sufficient protections for VMs. Securing VMs must start before the VMs are even deployed.
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