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Virtualization Security: Protecting Virtualized Environments
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Virtualization Security: Protecting Virtualized Environments

by Dave Shackleford
November 2012
Intermediate to advanced
360 pages
10h 26m
English
Sybex
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Chapter 2

Securing Hypervisors

This chapter is about locking down virtualization platforms, specifically Type I hypervisors. Hardening the hypervisor should really be viewed as a standard practice, much as it should be for enterprise servers of any importance. There are an incredible number of configuration options for the major platforms (ESXi, Hyper-V, and XenServer). In this chapter, I'll cover the most fundamental, getting you to a sound security state that conforms to industry best practices. Where appropriate, I'll refer to outside sources for more in-depth information that's somewhat outside the scope of this book. Overall, these settings will help you secure your hypervisors to a reasonable level for most organizations.

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