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What changed when going from Physical to Virtual and how can we help?
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The SANS Institute has identified The Top 10 Virtualization Mistakes (and how to avoid them)
Auditing Security Risks in Virtual IT Systems (ICSA Journal Vol 1 2011)
Analyst Reports
The 451 Group reviews the Catbird V-Agent
Abstract
As virtualization sweeps into datacenters, the small and shrinking cadre of holdouts cling to one last shred of justification: It's not yet clear whether the hypervisor is secure. If it's not, adding an extra layer of vulnerability under datacenter Windows servers looks less like shrewd business practice and more like madness. Thus a cottage industry around securing the hypervisor has been born.
Catbird Networks is one of three companies The 451 Group is tracking in this sector. The company built its business around physical-world Web security and network access control. In June 2007 it introduced Catbird V-Agent to do the same for virtual networks running inside a single physical server.
See the full 451 Group report covering the Catbird V-Agent™