An Introduction to Virtualization Security
Examples of sound patch management practices include maintaining the latest service packs for both guests and hosts, alleviating any unnecessary applications that have a history of vulnerabilities, and applying the latest security rollup patches if and when they are supplied by the virtual software vendor.
II. Host/Platform Security The host platform, which connects the VMM and virtual guests to the physical network, can vary widely in the type of configuration options available. This is largely dependent on system architecture; for example, VMware's ESX Server platform has a number of similarities to Red Hat Linux. Given that many of these systems are able to be hardened considerably, a number of
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