Security Guide for VMware ESX: Helpful But Has Holes

LinuxSecurity.com: With security becoming ever more important, I've been reviewing the various guides available to harden the VMware Virtual Infrastructure. So far the results have been disappointing, though I've looked at the CISecurity VMware ESX Benchmark and the VMware VI3 Hardening Guidelines. Now for the US Government's Defense Information Systems Agency's Security Technical Implementation Guide (STIG)-a long-awaited document that all levels of the U.S. government will follow to harden and protect their VMware VI3 installations. At first look at VM security you might think it's just like securing any hardware install OS. However, VM security come with it's own set of challenges. This likes at the security issues with hardening VMware ESX.

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