Recently, I've heard many security officers talking about using virtual machines as a way to increase security. If your developers need local administrator rights and privileges and they can't have ...

I've been at several recent conferences where virtual machine (VM) and security “experts” were telling audiences how VM technology can be used to improve computer security. Wow! They are either drunk ...

Twenty years ago, almost to the day, Amazon Web Services (AWS) launched Simple Storage Service (S3). A few months later, the company’s Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) service opened for public beta ...

Hypervisors, also known as virtual machine monitors (VMMs), are software that create and run virtual machines (VMs). They allow a single physical computer to support multiple VMs by sharing resources ...

Start-up FireEye made its debut, announcing plans to ship a switch-based network-access control appliance next month that will let customers identify network-borne malware and attacks in order to ...

Back in September, the Center for Internet Security (CIS) released a whitepaper titled "Virtual Machine Security Guidelines - Version 1.0". In it, they addressed security concerns that apply to ...

Virtual machines provide isolation for user work sessions, but there is some confusion about how secure this technology is. Before organizations deploy VMs, their management must understand how this ...

Ransomware attacks targeting VMware ESXi and other virtual machine platforms are wreaking havoc among the enterprise, causing widespread disruption and loss of services. Panera's massive IT outage ...

Spread the loveFor years, the virtual machine (VM) was the undisputed king of server virtualization. It offered a ...