Book description
Over 75 practical recipes to help you successfully secure your vSphere environment
In Detail
Within the IT field, security is often a low priority when it comes to building new environments. As security compliance continues to gain prominence, proper and secure product configuration becomes even more important. Applying security to a complex virtual environment can be a daunting and time-consuming endeavor. This book provides a perfect plan for step-by-step configuration of vSphere 5.5 and its associated components.
The book starts by showing you how to configure the core vSphere components of the ESXi host before covering guest virtual machine security, user management, and network and storage security. Moving ahead, you will learn specifically about the configuration of X.509 certificates utilizing the SSL Certificate Automation Tool. The book concludes by taking you through VXLAN virtual wire configuration.
What You Will Learn
- Harden your ESXi host and guest virtual machines to reduce the vulnerabilities in your system
- Configure vCenter networks and storage security to establish secure virtual networks between environments
- Install and configure vShield Manager and Data Security to manage anti-malware and anitvirus policies for your virtual environments
- Set up vShield App and Edge, including firewall and VPN configurations to help secure your networks in your environment
- Use Sophos Anti-virus to establish a vShield Endpoint to secure your environment
Table of contents
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VMware vSphere Security Cookbook
- Table of Contents
- VMware vSphere Security Cookbook
- Credits
- About the Author
- About the Reviewers
- www.PacktPub.com
- Preface
- 1. Threat and Vulnerability Overview
- 2. ESXi Host Security
- 3. Configuring Virtual Machine Security
- 4. Configuring User Management
- 5. Configuring Network Security
- 6. Configuring Storage Security
- 7. Configuring vShield Manager
- 8. Configuring vShield App
- 9. Configuring vShield Edge
- 10. Configuring vShield Endpoint
- 11. Configuring vShield Data Security
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12. Configuring vSphere Certificates
- Introduction
- Configuring a Windows CA template
- Requesting certificates from a Windows CA
- Using SSL Certificate Automation Tool 5.5
- Process certificate requests
- Registering the Single Sign-On certificate
- Registering the Inventory Service certificate
- Registering the vCenter certificate
- Registering the Web Client certificate
- Registering the Log Browser certificate
- Registering the Update Manager certificate
- Installing an ESXi host certificate
- 13. Configuring vShield VXLAN Virtual Wires
- Index
Product information
- Title: VMware vSphere Security Cookbook
- Author(s):
- Release date: November 2014
- Publisher(s): Packt Publishing
- ISBN: 9781782170341
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