Kevin Piper

Virtualization Magazine on Ulitzer Implementing security is not a perfect science. It doesn't matter if you're talking about security for airports, bank vaults or computers; there will always be a struggle between the ultra-secure, practically unusable solution and the barely secure, user-friendly solution. Given unlimited resources (time, $$, etc.) and a great deal of leeway to infringe on peoples rights or business practices, you could create a security solution with little to no "gap." In reality though, we end up trying to balance security and usability and do the best we can to fill as many gaps as possible. When trying to protect virtual machines (VMs) you have to think of the same elements. For the most part, it's safe to say nobody wants to have their servers wide open waiting to be exploited by a new piece of malware or malicious hacker. However, they also ... (more)