As virtualization technology becomes common within the modern IT environment, the need for sound security and risk management for these systems increases. Although the technology and architecture can ...

Twenty years ago, almost to the day, Amazon Web Services (AWS) launched Simple Storage Service (S3). A few months later, the company’s Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) service opened for public beta ...

As an IT administrator, a common practice is to use an extra virtual machine to perform a variety of management and testing tasks. The isolated nature of virtual machines (VMs) lets desktop ...

Hypervisors, also known as virtual machine monitors (VMMs), are software that create and run virtual machines (VMs). They allow a single physical computer to support multiple VMs by sharing resources ...

Hidden virtual machines allow attackers to bypass endpoint security and remain undetected Attackers used trusted virtualization tools and built-in software to disguise malicious activity Sophos links ...

ForeScout Technologies, Inc., a leading Internet of Things (IoT) security company, today announced its new ForeScout data center security solution for VMware environments. Expanding on its existing ...

Back in September, the Center for Internet Security (CIS) released a whitepaper titled "Virtual Machine Security Guidelines - Version 1.0". In it, they addressed security concerns that apply to ...

Start-up FireEye made its debut, announcing plans to ship a switch-based network-access control appliance next month that will let customers identify network-borne malware and attacks in order to ...

A new phishing campaign dubbed 'CRON#TRAP' infects Windows with a Linux virtual machine that contains a built-in backdoor to give stealthy access to corporate networks. Using virtual machines to ...

Ransomware attacks targeting VMware ESXi and other virtual machine platforms are wreaking havoc among the enterprise, causing widespread disruption and loss of services. Panera's massive IT outage ...

In this Help Net Security, Oded Hareven, CEO of Akeyless Security, discusses how enterprises should adapt their cybersecurity strategies to address the growing need for machine-to-machine (M2M) ...