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RSA news: virtual machine security, finally!?
21 Apr 2009Now vendors and developers have a way to ward off down those dreaded virtual machine vulnerabilities plaguing every network. It’s VMware’s VMsafe API to the rescue. Finally a virtual machine security solution!
Now if we can just find a way to get people to:
- Require strong passwords on their virtual machines
- Patch their virtual machines
- Disable unnecessary and unsecured network shares on their virtual machines
- Turn off unneeded services on their virtual machines
- Encrypt the drives on their virtual machines
- Backup their virtual machines
- Test for security vulnerabilities on their virtual machines
To me – and this is just my humble opinion – unless and until network admins and security managers put the most basic security controls in place, why even bother with all this fancy virtual machine hypervisor API stuff?
’nuff said.
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