Symantec: Virtualization has been gaining ground in enterprises in recent years, offering attractive opportunities for scalability, efficiency, and flexibility.
According to a Forrester Research, more than 70 percent of enterprises plan to virtualize their servers by the end of 2015.
Typically, companies delay virtualization due to security concerns or virtualize before implementing advanced security measures. However, virtual machines and mainframes are not immune to attacks.
The adoption of virtualization technology in an enterprise creates new attack risks that must be addressed, such as monitoring of virtual networks between virtual machines. There is malware specifically designed to compromise virtual machines and attacks that directly target central servers.
About 18 percent of malware detects virtual machines and stops running when it encounters one of them.
In this white paper, we will examine some security concerns regarding virtualized environments (VMEs), focusing on malware attacks on them. For the most part, these concerns apply to both hosted hypervisors installed on a pre-existing operating system and bare-metal hypervisors that do not require an operating system.
For more information, download the white paper here.
