Virtualization Security

Virtualization Security focuses upon end-to-end security, integrity, auditability, and regulatory compliance for virtualization and clouds.

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Private Cloud Security Nice to Have!?

June 24, 2010
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Private Cloud Security Nice to Have!?

In a recent document written by virtualization.info and Secure Network of Italy entitled Securing the Private Cloud several issues come to mind. While this is a good document on the availability front of virtualization security, I did not read anything that affected integrity or confidentiality. You cannot be secure if you ignore 2 of the…

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vNetwork Security: Looking at VLANs

June 23, 2010
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There is nothing like fully understanding the protections inherent within your vNetwork and the Roles and Permissions you can set within the virtualization management tool suites to ensure your vNetwork is secured, audited, and monitored for issues. Just like you do now within the pNetwork. Unlike the pNetwork, the vNetwork provides a certain amount of…

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Risky Social Behaviors akin to Multi-Tenancy Risks

June 17, 2010
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Can we use some of this Risky Social Behaviors post to aid us in finding an adequate definition for secure multi-tenancy? Perhaps more to the point it can define how we look at multi-tenancy today. On a recent VMware Communities podcast we were told two things that seem contradictory to current security thinking. The first…

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If the Virtualization Security Products had no Firewall?

June 10, 2010
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The security companies are looking into all aspects of virtual environment introspection to label, tag, or mark all objects for compliance reasons, inspect the contents of virtual machines for asset management (CMDB), and an early form of Root Kit detection. Virtualization Security is not just about the firewall, it is about the entire ecosystem, auditing,…

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To Cloud or not to Cloud, Better Yet, What is a Cloud?

June 9, 2010
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While doing a quick Google search to find what a Cloud is, I have found several different definitions which depend on which vendor site you pull up. One thing is for sure despite the frequent use of the term, it still means different things to different people and or companies. For my reference point I…

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Virtualization Security Technologies… Pushing the Envelope

June 4, 2010
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During the Virtualization Security Podcast on 5/13, IBM's David Abercrombie joined us to discuss IBM's Virtualization Security Protection for VMware (VSP) which contains several exciting uses of the VMsafe API for VMware vSphere. These being: * Network: Network Monitoring, Firewall, Access Control, and a Protocol Analysis Module * Memory: Rootkit Detection

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Defining Tenants for Secure Multi-Tenancy for the Cloud

June 1, 2010
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The panel of the Virtualization Security Podcast on 5/27/2010 was joined by an attorney specializing in the Internet space. David Snead spoke at InfoSec and made it clear that there was more to secure multi-tenancy than one would imagine. The first question was "how would you define tenant?" which I believe is core to the…

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A Couple of Tips or Tricks When Working With VMware ESX using Root

May 28, 2010
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When working with VMware ESX there are some tips that I can share that can help you manage your environment. This tips are not anything really new or exciting but rather a reinforcement of some best practices to live by in order to improve auditing for compliance and troubleshooting. Use of the following in conjunction…

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Growth of Citrix and Hyper-V EcoSystems

May 27, 2010
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PhD Virtual has gained its second round of funding with investment from Citrix amongst others as discussed within our post News: esXpress is no more but what does this mean for XenServer? Up until this point it looked like Citrix was out of the server hypervisor wars and backing Microsoft's Hyper-V play. Yet this looks…

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