Security Considerations and Best Practices for Securing Virtual Machines

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6 March 2007

Neil MacDonald

Securing a virtual machine involves many of the same best practices as securing any operating system. However, there are key differences that organizations must address and factor into their return on investment analysis, or they risk an overall reduction in security protection or unexpected costs.

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Table of Contents

What You Need to Know

1.0

Introduction

Analysis

2.0		VM Security During Planning, Installation and Configuration
3.0		VM Vulnerability and Configuration Management
4.0		VM Intrusion Prevention
5.0		VM Identity and Access Management
6.0		VM Network Access Control
7.0		VM Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery

Recommended Reading

List of Figures

	Figure 1.	Major Information Security Processes

	Figure 2.	Host OS Partition VM Implementation

	Figure 3.	Gartner's Hypervisor Blueprint

Security Management
Virtualization
Virtual Machine Monitors

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