the State of Security

virtualisation

I Drink Your PCI Virtualization Milkshake!

by ~Previous Contributers

By: Mark Gaydos PCI compliance, virtualization and security all can work together just like a Dairy Queen Blizzard if a company takes the right steps….. It’s smooth and tasty (for your business)! I was reading Chris Hoff’s and David Taylor’s respective posts on PCI and virtualization. Although I am in violent agreement with each of [...]

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Security Starts with the Hypervisor

by Michael Lohr

We have often heard phrases such as “a chain is only as strong as its weakest link” and in security that phrase really rings true. No matter how securely you configure an application, if the operating system is setup in an insecure manner then the application will always be at risk. This is especially true [...]

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Seconds Away from Failure…

by Gavin Millard

One of our marketing guys always uses the mantra when discussing Tripwire “You are only days, minutes or seconds from a change that could cause your systems to fail”. Now I’m not easily marketed to, I don’t have great abs in less than 7 minutes a day or any collectable porcelain figurines of the Royal [...]

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Virtualization Security: The Iron Law of the Bell-curve

by ~Previous Contributers

By: Mark Gaydos I’m a big believer that the bell-curve is everywhere and dominates most things… including virtualization security. I was reading Greg Ness’ blog post on the issues surrounding virtualization security and whether vendors and IT groups will be proactive in how they approach the topic. And of course the answer will be ‘yes’ [...]

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