In surveys of senior-level IT managers, security is consistently one of the top five concerns, along, specifically, with security related to the hot technology of the moment. Most recently those ...

On the surface, security questions surrounding virtual servers don’t seem much different than those for the physical machines on which they run. In fact, starting a virtual security audit by keeping ...

What’s the problem with bolt-on security for virtual servers and virtual environments? Too many people forget that VMware Virtual Infrastructure 3 (VI3) is the entire virtual environment (VE). Granted ...

Malicious hypervisors. Subversive virtual machines. Live migration impersonators. Welcome to the world of server virtualization, where the threats are new and the traditional security tools like ...

IT pros are upbeat about virtualization and the benefit of server consolidation, whereas security experts harbor doubts about the security role the hypervisor can play Does transitioning to ...

Collier asks: "Can we not just amend what we already have and call it our virtualisation solution?" Rupert Collier, COMPUTERLINKS When VocalTec released the first commercial Internet phone software in ...

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Virtual firewalls can be a useful security tool, but their efficacy depends heavily on how you have set up your networks One of the hot topics on the VMware Forums lately has been about the ...

A former quality assurance employee of National Computer Systems (NCS) was sentenced to two years and eight months in prison for reportedly deleting 180 virtual servers after being fired. Nagaraju ...