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Server virtualization security management and compliance policies


For virtualization administrators, virtual machine security has become an increasing concern. How do you monitor VMs for potential security risks and breaches? How do you prevent bugs from breaking through the virtual wall and attacking the host system? And which virtual machine guidelines should your IT shop adopt to ensure that your virtual machines are secure? So too, if your large virtualized virtualization environment suffers from a lack of compliance policies, it's no wonder you dread the prospect of an IT audit. The first step to easing the burden of staying compliant in a virtual world is bringing process and policies to your virtualized infrastructure. If you need help with securing virtual machines, preventing virtual machine security breaches, or guidance with an IT audit management for virtualized resources, this section offers advice, research and tutorials on the discovery and inventory of virtual machines (VMs), tracking and monitoring of VMs to ensure VM security, methods to harden virtual machines, how to create an audit trail of VM changes, preventing software licensing violations, and other guidelines to comply with regulations such as Sarbanes-Oxley Act (SOX), the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) and the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS), and more.
Security management
Virtualization security threats are real, and a security breach of a physical server can take down all the virtual machines allocated to that server as well. Security threats are also varied; there are threats to operating systems, virtualization hypervisors, networks,and more. In this ...
Server virtualization compliance and governance
Part of building an IT governance plan for virtualized environments involves establishing compliance policies and practices for virtual servers. These policies enable you to track and monitor your virtual machines, institute compliant configuration management, separate IT assets, secure ...

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