March 21, 2009 5:09 PM
Posted by: Eric Siebert
Eric Siebert,
ESX,
PCI,
Security,
VMwareThis week I went through out annual audit process for the fourth time, and as usual the virtual hosts were mostly ignored. Why? The Payment Card Industry (PCI) security standards have yet to be updated to include the virtualization layer of...
January 13, 2009 3:07 PM
Posted by: Texiwill
Edward L. Haletky,
Podcasts,
Security,
Texiwill,
Virtualization security,
VMware CommunitiesThe VMware Communities roundtable podcast drew in a large crowd on Wednesday the 7th. In general, the show draws hundreds of listeners that download the recorded sessions available via Talkshoe and...
January 8, 2009 6:47 PM
Posted by: Texiwill
Blue Gears,
Desktop virtualization,
Edward L. Haletky,
Exploit,
Security,
Texiwill,
VMware,
VMware PlayerThe gang at Milw0rm have posted one of the few exploits against VMware's desktop line of products, specifically VMware Player version 2.5.1. This exploits the vmwarebase.dll file when running VMware Player on Windows systems. There is no chance...
November 17, 2008 6:31 PM
Posted by: Texiwill
Edward L. Haletky,
Security,
VI3,
Virtual machine security,
Virtualization,
Virtualization security,
VMware,
VMware ESX,
VMware ESX 3.5,
VMware ESXi,
VMware scriptingVirtualization security depends on more than securing the virtualization host and hypervisor. It depends on everything that touches your virtualization host, directly or indirectly, also being secure.
Let us take a quick look at the daily operations you may perform within your virtual...
November 3, 2008 6:52 PM
Posted by: Texiwill
Edward L. Haletky,
Security,
VI3,
Virtualization,
VMware,
VMware ESX,
VMware ESXiVMware ESXi may have a smaller footprint than VMware ESX, but the pro-security theory behind the skinny ESX version may be defunct given the lack of ability to create a Defense in Depth strategy around the...
November 3, 2008 5:47 PM
Posted by: Texiwill
Cloud computing,
Edward L. Haletky,
Security,
VirtualizationGoogle and Microsoft are forming mega data centers with low energy costs and serious tax advantages by using renewable energy solutions. Each...
October 30, 2008 10:26 PM
Posted by: Texiwill
Edward L. Haletky,
Security,
VDC-OS,
Virtualization,
Virtualization security,
VMware ESXThere's more to VMware's purchase of Bluelane than meets the eye. Touted as a means to beef up VMware's security and high availability options within the virtual infrastructure, this purchase is instead more of a move to a full VDC-OS...and not just a concept as presented at VMworld 2008.
The...
June 9, 2008 8:59 PM
Posted by: Rick Vanover
Rick Vanover,
Security,
VirtualizationI have been using VMware Server 2.0 (beta 2) on both Windows and Linux platforms for a while now. For Windows systems that are a member of an Active Directory domain, there are inherited permissions that may be assigned from Group Policy. If you want to change that, here are a couple of pointers in...
March 24, 2008 6:04 PM
Posted by: HannahDrake
Security,
VirtualizationMany virtualization analysts punt on the issue of security. But two recent events have brought security into higher relief: the uncovering of VMware's file-sharing security flaw and
