Chapter 9. Hyper-V Security Hardening – Best Practices

Nowadays, with the increased number of attacks on businesses, security has become a hot topic almost everywhere. Enterprises are more concerned now about both their perimeter and internal security. In Middle Eastern countries, where natural oil and gas is the center of the economy, we have recently seen huge security attacks on the oil and gas sector that caused the targeted companies to lose billions of dollars. And such security attacks that affect the IT infrastructure keeping it shut down for days to weeks have a huge impact on business. While security is important at both client and server ends, it's difficult to find a balanced approach to secure both ends. A well constructed security ...

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