When it comes to security there is always the concerns about the security of the ESXi hypervisor. Its always the hypervisor that is nominated as the layer that can’t be trusted within the IT infrastructure. The whitepaper by Mike Foley tries to give you more insight on how the VMware ESXi hypervisor from a security perspective and what things to look at when securing the hypervisor.
The topics covered in the white paper are:
- Secure Virtual Machine Isolation in Virtualization
- Network Isolation
- Virtualized Storage
- Secure Management
- Platform Integrity Protection
- VMware’s Secure Development Lifecycle
The document can be downloaded here.