With the military's current mandates to increase efficiencies, virtualization offers multiple benefits to the armed forces. Projects underway at the National Security Agency are advancing its use, but ...

Virtualization can be both a blessing and a curse, serving up improved security while at the same time hiding dangers Almost any IT department worth its salt is deploying virtualization technology ...

Virtualization creates an abstraction layer separating guest operating systems from underlying hardware, enabling multiple VMs to be hosted on a single server. Virtual machines may rely on trim ...

Comparison of security postures for containers and different types of hypervisors. Key measures of software security. Security certifications for virtualization solutions. How to improve the security ...

One of the big topics at last week's Black Hat and Defcon security confabs was virtualization security, but few speakers talked about what is really important: how we approach virtualizing security, ...

I sometimes find myself talking about a topic and getting blank stares. Then a year or two later, everyone is suddenly talking about it. One such topic is security virtualization. Until now, those two ...

As virtualization technology gains in popularity, it may bring with it new risks, said Don Simard, commercial solutions director at the U.S. National Security Agency, the electronic intelligence and ...

As the mainstream continues to adopt virtualization into their IT environments, the question of IT security still comes up. In fact, some worry that security might even pose a bigger problem within a ...