RSSAudit and Improve Virtual Server Security: Five Tips
Bad physical networking decisions. Unpatched systems. Too much access to virtual server management consoles. These and other problems can degrade the security of your virtual servers. If you're ready to improve virtual server security, consider this five-step checklist as a start.
"This will make sure the virtual machine cannot snoop into the traffic that your management console is having with the servers to control them," says VMware's Mulchandani. "It's almost like tapping into someone else's phone."
"Most security problems in the virtual world will be introduced through misadministration, mismanagement or just plain old mistakes," says MacDonald. "The fact that we have to use different tools in the physical world than in the virtual world compounds that problem."
For a further examination of security risks that may be hiding in your virtualized environment, see How to Find and Fix 10 Real Security Threats on Your Virtual Servers.
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