In this
lesson, learn potential pitfalls of and processes for implementing server virtualisation
securely.
About the expert:
Ben Chai is a founding director of Incoming Thought Limited, an IT security training and
consultancy practice.
Video:
Best practices in securing virtual servers
In this video presentation, learn the essential security requirements needed by a set of
virtualised systems. The presentation gives a high-level summary of the technologies required to
ensure the integrity, availability and confidentiality of your virtual servers are maintained to
the same or higher standard than their physical counterparts.
Tip:
Virtual server access control: Tactics for IT segregation of duties
Virtual servers bring new challenges to server access control. For example, in the physical server
world only email administrators have access to the email servers. However in the virtual world,
these same administrators may inadvertently be able to access the database servers. In this section
we give you some potential gotchas caused by inadequate role based management and strategies on how
to avoid them.
Podcast:
Fact or Fiction: Virtual server security misconceptions
Many organisations fail to understand how important information security is to a server
virtualisation implementation, so it's no surprise that enterprises also unknowingly fall prey to a
wide range of misconceptions about virtual server security. In this podcast, virtualisation
security expert Ben Chai offers an operational baseline to help organisations make secure decisions
about their virtual server infrastructures.
Quiz:
Virtualisation security for enterprise servers
How much have you learned about securing virtualised servers? Find out in this short quiz.
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This was first published in March 2011
