As wider the acceptance of virtualization is becoming, the chances of blended attacks to this are also increasing proportionally. This article finds out the real picture of security issues in a virtual environment and also quantifies the threat with the security experts’ assessments
Virtualization is today no more merely a buzz, it is eventually becoming a strategy for organizations to cope up with growing IT infrastructure cost and complexity. The growth of the dynamic virtualization market will continue as organizations increasingly deploy virtual machines as a means of decoupling the application stack from the underlying hardware. While experts believe virtual machine is a foundational technology to the creation of dynamic IT environments, the challenge going forward is to get users to integrate virtualization with legacy management tools and enhance management functionality along with concrete security policy to solve specific business issues. |
Virtualization technologies available today not only enable organizations to consolidate their physical assets to form a heterogeneous environment contributing significantly towards environmental saving, system availability & management but at the same time reduce overhead costs, operational expenses. However, at the same time it also introduces additional problems that can substantially increase security risks. In general, aggregating multiple functions and resources into a single high capacity physical platform increases the overall security risk if virtual environment is not properly evaluated and designed with reference to system security. In most of the customer scenarios, it is not security but the business enablement that drives the decision to adopt virtualization technologies. Consequently, system administrators may not fully understand the security implications and risks associated with the deployment of such technologies.
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