Is moving to virtualization and cloud computing making network security easier or harder? When some 2,100 top IT and security managers in 27 countries were asked, the response revealed a profound lack ...

Virtualization can be both a blessing and a curse, serving up improved security while at the same time hiding dangers Almost any IT department worth its salt is deploying virtualization technology ...

As the mainstream continues to adopt virtualization into their IT environments, the question of IT security still comes up. In fact, some worry that security might even pose a bigger problem within a ...

With the military's current mandates to increase efficiencies, virtualization offers multiple benefits to the armed forces. Projects underway at the National Security Agency are advancing its use, but ...

As with any server, security is a key issue for servers supporting hypervisors and a variety of virtual servers. Unlike tools for securing physical servers, however, tools for virtual security are ...

While adoption of server virtualization is proceeding at a gallop, the effort to refine virtualization security reached only a slow trot in 2009. Virtualization security: So far nothing Sign up here.

We’ve already discussed the relative lack of tools to secure virtualized servers and infrastructures, the problems inherent in adding bolt-on tools, risks in connecting a VM to the wrong part of a ...

While mobile and smartphone security is the hot topic of the moment among virtualization security gurus, plenty of other virtualization security topics demand IT’s attention right now. At the recent ...

For some IT shops, virtualization gives a false sense of security. The same threats from the physical world still apply in the virtual world. A common misconception is that the virtualization of a ...

Current controls in the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) are in conflict with virtualization practices and may hamper adoption of the technology, industry experts have warned.