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Practical Steps to Mitigate Virtualization Security Risks

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Overview This paper, describes seven practical steps that IT organizations can take to mitigate the unique security challenges of virtualization. While many of these steps are solid best practices that apply to both physical and virtualized environments, some are directed specifically at virtualized environments. Every day, information security practitioners live with the reality that they are a single change away from a security breach that could result in front page news, brand damage, or regulatory fines. These issues are clearly not confined to security, but impact business at the highest level. Consequently, security practitioners strive to implement IT controls to mitigate issues such as the risk of fraud, loss of confidential customer information, disruption of critical business services and data integrity, and inaccurate financial reporting.

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Publisher	Tripwire	File Format	PDF
Date Published	September 2008
Format	White Papers
Topics	Security Management

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Publisher:
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portable computers

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Publisher:
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portable computers

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Analysis: Protecting yourself from an inside job

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Encryption not the key to data security

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cio jury

Gov't needs greater accountability to "ensure security", says Darling

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Security Strategy
Tags:
law,
dva,
hmrc,
gov

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Data leaks highlight need for content security

The underlying message here is that the starting point for any business wanting to address the way it handles data and mitigate the risk of data leaks has to be to formulate good internal policy, so that even when the inevitable occurs...

As crunch bites: Don't neglect the logs

Any security breach where data is lost could damage their reputation and cause customers to jump ship. Failure to adequately protect information and ensure its integrity has not been compromised could also lead to organisations being unable to...

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