Securing the Virtual Environment, Included DVD: How to Defend the Enterprise Against Attack (Paperback)

As more and more data is moved into virtual environments the need to secure them becomes increasingly important. Useful for service providers as well as enterprise and small business IT professionals the book offers a broad look across virtualization used in various industries as well as a narrow view of vulnerabilities unique to virtual environments. A companion DVD is included with recipes and testing scripts.

• Examines the difference in a virtual model versus traditional computing models and the appropriate technology and procedures to defend it from attack
• Dissects and exposes attacks targeted at the virtual environment and the steps necessary for defense
• Covers information security in virtual environments: building a virtual attack lab, finding leaks, getting a side-channel, denying or compromising services, abusing the hypervisor, forcing an interception, and spreading infestations
• Accompanying DVD includes hands-on examples and code

This how-to guide arms IT managers, vendors, and architects of virtual environments with the tools they need to protect against common threats.

一本逐步指南：識別和防禦虛擬環境攻擊的步驟

隨著越來越多的數據轉移到虛擬環境中，保護這些環境的需求變得越來越重要。這本書對服務提供商、企業和小型企業的IT專業人員都很有用，它提供了對各個行業中使用的虛擬化技術的廣泛概述，以及對虛擬環境中獨特漏洞的深入分析。附帶的DVD包含了實踐和測試腳本。

本書內容包括：
- 比較虛擬模型與傳統計算模型的差異，以及保護虛擬環境免受攻擊所需的適當技術和程序
- 分解並揭示針對虛擬環境的攻擊，以及防禦所需的步驟
- 虛擬環境中的信息安全：搭建虛擬攻擊實驗室，尋找漏洞，獲取側信道，拒絕或破壞服務，濫用虛擬機監控程序，強制攔截，以及擴散感染
- 附帶的DVD包含了實際示例和代碼

這本實用指南為虛擬環境的IT經理、供應商和架構師提供了保護免受常見威脅的工具。