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Virtualization Security Assessment
The benefits associated with virtualization solutions are creating real value across enterprise IT and network environments – increasing flexibility, improving responsiveness to business opportunities, and offering greater operational efficiencies. The greater challenge today is to maximize the benefits of virtualization without compromising security and compliance. Perhaps you're asking:
- What are the most critical vulnerabilities that threaten the security of my virtual environment?
- What threats are we susceptible to within the virtual environment?
- How can we create a plan for improvement and mitigate the various risks we face?
To determine your overall risk posture, we assess all critical components of the virtual infrastructure, as well as any physical systems and network devices connected to it, including the security of server platforms, virtual host types, virtual and real network configurations, management systems, access controls and relevant operational and security controls.
Once the virtualization security assessment is completed, we make recommendations on how to reduce your infrastructure vulnerabilities and mitigate risks, and provide guidance on how to incorporate virtualization security into your compliance planning.
InfoSight's security experts possess considerable expertise in designing and reviewing virtual environments, and can provide in-depth analysis of the risks facing your organization's virtualization infrastructure.
Contact us to learn more about our virtualization security assessment services and other areas of expertise.
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What is a Virtualization
Security Assessment?
A virtualization security assessment is an explicit study to identify IT security vulnerabilities and risks in a virtualized environment. The assessment process includes the evaluation of policy and technical characteristics of the infrastructure.The assessment will detail current infrastructure vulnerabilities and recommend risk mitigation efforts. The recommendations may include some, or all of the following areas:
• User and resource security
• Access controls
• Network configuration
• Platform security
• Data security
• Physical security
• Security monitoring
• Security policy management
• Operational controls
(change management, asset management, etc)
An important benefit of the assessment is evaluating the effectiveness of the security mechanisms currently in place against reference criteria, including:
• Deviations from industry best-practices
• Any known vulnerabilities
• Any security baseline criteria
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