Symantec: Virtualization is gaining more and more ground in business in recent years, offering attractive opportunities for escalation, efficiency and flexibility.
According to her research Forrester Research, over 70 percent of businesses intend to virtualize their servers by the end of 2015.
Typically, companies are delaying the implementation of virtualization because they are worried about security issues or proceed to virtualization before taking advanced security measures. However, virtual machines and central servers are not invisible to attacks.
The adoption of virtualization technology in a business δημιουργεί νέους κινδύνους επιθέσεων που πρέπει να αντιμετωπιστούν, όπως είναι η monitoring των εικονικών δικτύων μεταξύ εικονικών υπολογιστών. Υπάρχει κακόβουλο λογισμικό (malware) που έχει σχεδιαστεί ειδικά για να θέσει σε κίνδυνο εικονικούς υπολογιστές και επιθέσεις που στοχεύουν απευθείας σε κεντρικούς διακομιστές.
About 18 percent of malware locates virtual machines and stops running when it encounters one of them.
In this White Paper, we will look at some security concerns regarding VMs, focusing on malware attacks on them. In their majority, these concerns apply to both hosted hypervisors installed in pre-existing functional system and bare-metal hypervisor that do not require an operating system.
For more information, download the white paper from here.
