VMware vSphere and Virtual Infrastructure Security: Securing the Virtual Environment
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.53 (640 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0137158009 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 552 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2018-01-06 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
Edward owns AstroArch Consulting, Inc., providing virtualization, security, network consulting, and development. He is a contributor to Secure Coding best practices and coauthor of Global Knowledge Windows 2000 Boot Camp courseware. Tom Howarth is DABCC’s Data Center Virtualization Analyst. Edwar
Praise Page for VMware vSphere and Virtual Infrastructure Security“I’ve known Edward for a while and he is very passionate about security and virtualization and this book represents his passion for both subjects. Even without the focus on security, Edward’s book is a valuable reference work for the useful tidbits of knowledge he’s gathered during his career. Security is one area that is often not paid enough attention to and in a virtual environment it is absolutely critical as many different security threats exist compared to phy
"The reference for securing virtual environments, in particular, VMware-based." according to Ramon. In the first half of this year (2009), I was involved on extending my previous research on virtualization security, and specifically, I focused on securing and hardening VMware ESX environments. This stirred up my interest on this book. To sum up what this book is all about: "I would have loved to have this book handy back by that time, as it would have saved me tons of time" Instead, I had to read and compare multiple VMware security guides from VMware, CIS, NIST, etc, and perform an extensive hands-on research on my own.The book offers a very solid and broad analysis of multi. Kristy M. Westphal said Excellent VMware reference. Wow, I was ready for this book. Really, really, really ready! Virtual environments are springing up everywhere and knowing just what to secure within them has been a challenge to identify. This book not only addresses VMware alone, though, it takes a look at issues with securing the entire environment that interrelates with the VMware components and walks you through securing these as well. Anyone running or considering implementing the VMware into their environment should read this book and follow its instruction.For example, I found the chapter on storage security helpful in . detailed description When reading this, keep in mind that this does not describe all types of Virtual Memory machines. It talks in detail about the dominant market player, VMware, but alternatives do exist.The book is directed at a system administrator responsible for installing and running instances of VMware vSphere. There is an emphasis here on protecting your [virtual] machines from attackers. One tip is to isolate storage devices from all other networks. In practice this amounts to making sure that someone on the Internet cannot directly access them.NFS is mentioned. Easy to set up, but of all
Next, Haletky drills deep into the key components of a VMware installation, identifying both real and theoretical exploits, and introducing effective countermeasures. Complete Hands-On Help for Securing VMware vSphere and Virtual Infrastructure by Edward Haletky, Author of the Best Selling Book on VMware, VMware ESX Server in the Enterprise As VMware has become increasingly ubiquitous in the enterprise, IT professionals have become increasingly concerned about securing it. Coverage includes• Viewing virtualization from the attacker’s perspective, and understanding the new security problems it can introduce• Discovering which security threats the vmkernel does (and doesn’t) address• Learning how VMsafe enables third-party security tools to access the vmkernel API• Understanding the security implications of VMI, paravirtualization, and VMware Tools• Securing virtualized sto