"Webb, Brian (Corp)" <[email protected]> wrote on 01/02/2009 05:25:25 
PM:

> There were several sessions on security at VMWorld this past 
> year and the people leading those sessions would definitely say
> there are security issues that come about from using 
> virtualization.  In some ways the security picture gets better,
> in some ways worse.

Christofer Hoff is a great source on security and virtualization.  His 
latest article:

http://rationalsecurity.typepad.com/blog/2008/12/virtualization-so-last-tuesday.html

If you read through his virtualization posts ( 
http://rationalsecurity.typepad.com/blog/virtualization/ ), you will get a 
pretty good idea of what the "fuss" is about.  I dunno, virtualization is 
neither good nor bad.  It's just another tool, and it will take us a while 
to understand and secure it, just like anything else.  There are 
definitely issues, and it pays to read up on the potential pitfalls.

Eric Eskam
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