Windows Client Update, Resources Edition, April 20, 2006
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==== VM, VPS, and User Training==== by Mark Joseph Edwards
Last week, I discussed how virtual machines (VMs) might become standard on computers. As a brief recap, virtualization technology could provide an effective way to ensure the integrity of desktop computers, particularly because it makes restoring a compromised system quick and easy: Simply shut down the VM and relaunch it.
If you consider implementing this type of solution, you should also consider running different OSs on the under-and overlying systems. Doing so will probably improve overall security more than if you, say, run a Windows-based VM (typically called the guest OS) on top of another Windows-based OS (typically called the host OS). Exploiting the vulnerabilities of two OSs and their related applications is more difficult than compromising one.
You could, for example, run some variety of Linux or BSD or possibly Mac OS X or Solaris as the host OS and run Windows as a VM. This way, if an intruder is able to compromise Windows, you can quickly clean up that problem; in order to compromise the entire system, the intruder would need to know which OS runs as the host underneath Windows and be able to exploit that OS too....
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