Recently, I've heard many security officers talking about using virtual machines as a way to increase security. If your developers need local administrator rights and privileges and they can't have ...

Twenty years ago, almost to the day, Amazon Web Services (AWS) launched Simple Storage Service (S3). A few months later, the company’s Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) service opened for public beta ...

I've been at several recent conferences where virtual machine (VM) and security “experts” were telling audiences how VM technology can be used to improve computer security. Wow! They are either drunk ...

Hypervisors, also known as virtual machine monitors (VMMs), are software that create and run virtual machines (VMs). They allow a single physical computer to support multiple VMs by sharing resources ...

Start-up FireEye made its debut, announcing plans to ship a switch-based network-access control appliance next month that will let customers identify network-borne malware and attacks in order to ...

Back in September, the Center for Internet Security (CIS) released a whitepaper titled "Virtual Machine Security Guidelines - Version 1.0". In it, they addressed security concerns that apply to ...

Google is giving Android’s on-device artificial intelligence a stronger security boundary. Android 17 introduces AISeal, a ...

Ransomware attacks targeting VMware ESXi and other virtual machine platforms are wreaking havoc among the enterprise, causing widespread disruption and loss of services. Panera's massive IT outage ...

New generally available feature helps organizations assess Linux virtual machines against CIS Benchmarks without deploying additional software.

Why make your life harder?

When starting a virtual machine using VMware Workstation or Fusion, you may have seen a pop saying you are running this virtual machine with side channel mitigations enabled. In this post, we will ...