Virtualization Security Best Practices: Protecting Your Data and Applications
With over 80% of workloads worldwide virtualized, virtualization security is a concern for organizations regardless of size, goal, and industry. Proper protection systems for a particular organization’s workloads and data are necessary to support production and service availability.
In this post, we explain:Â
- Virtualization security definition
- Main virtualization security issues
- VM security best practices
What Is Virtualized Security and How Can It Help?Â
Virtualized security (aka security virtualization) refers to a set of software solutions and measures specifically created and applied to protect virtualized environments. Unlike usual, static hardware-based network security running on physical switches, firewalls, and routers, virtualization security is all about virtual nodes.