Virtualization Security

Reveals various security issues and provides solutions to avoid them. This book: offers explanations of implementation and configuration strategies that support a secure environment and describes techniques and tools that may be used to assess the security status of existing installations.

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Authored by one of the few experts on the security issues that are arising from the new virtual computer infrastructures, this book reveals various security issues and provides solutions to avoid them. It: offers detailed explanations of implementation and configuration strategies that support a secure environment and describes techniques and tools that may be used to assess the security status of existing installations; presents the security aspects of a virtualized environment in the areas of network configuration and logical access controls, and then goes on to show the various abilities of popular virtualization tools such as VMWare, XenEnterprise and VirtualIron; discusses the use of assessment tools (Ecora, Nessus, CIS, LSAT, the author's script); and provides end-of-chapter review questions as well as a course syllabus suitable for professors.