Virtual Environment Security - Considerations & Practices

Abstract

Virtualization is playing a vital role in various organizations by providing high flexibility to their environment. The users are getting tremendous benefits in terms of cost, utilization and efficiency. It promises to overcome the pitfalls in the traditional computing & provides the best solutions. Though Virtualization has many advantages over traditional computing, many organizations still have the dilemma to implement virtualization because of the security concerns. This paper provides the literature survey of virtualization, types of virtualization technologies and possible threats in virtual environment. We are providing a list of best practices and considerations which any organization must consider before implementing virtualization in their environment.