How to reduce vulnerabilities in your VMware environment

January 26, 2012 Published by  SearchCloudSecurity.com Cloud Security Briefing VMware configuration management, patching best practices Dave Shackleford, Contributor As enterprise deployments of virtualization continue to grow, it's critical to have control over the configuration and patch status of hypervisor platforms to minimize the presence of vulnerabilities in your environment. Fortunately, VMware offers a variety of tools within its vSphere infrastructure that can help operations teams keep up with VMware configuration management and VMware patch management best practices. In this tip, we'll focus on two of the most powerful tools: Host Profiles and VMware Update Manager. Although neither of these are new, they've both been updated in vSphere 5 with new functionality and capabilities. Read more Subscribe via RSS Calls for cloud security transparency getting louder Cloud security transparency today equates to a non-disclosure-agreement discussion between an enterprise and service provider over the provider's controls. The end result may satisfy the customer and lead to business for the provider, but the process isn't efficient for either side. CSA licenses cloud transparency tool from CSC What about cloud security certifications for cloud providers? There probably isn't a day that goes by I'm not asked when the Cloud Security Alliance is going to certify cloud providers. We have a professional certification, the Certificate of Cloud Security Knowledge (CCSK), but wouldn't it be more useful to have a comprehensive certification of the information security capabilities and trustworthiness of cloud providers? NIST guidance cites cloud security gaps, need for standards Your Information Technology Portal Stay up to date with IT resources, blogs and events Bitpipe.com: An IT resource library ITKE: Get answers to your toughest IT-related questions IT Events: Meet the experts and learn from those who have gone before you ABOUT THIS E-NEWSLETTER This e-newsletter is published by SearchCloudSecurity.com, part of the TechTarget network. TechTarget provides IT professionals with the resources they need to perform their jobs: Web sites, newsletters, forums, blogs, white papers, webcasts, events and more. Copyright 2012 TechTarget. All rights reserved. Designated trademarks and brands are the property of their respective owners. This email is published by the TechTarget Security Media Group. Copyright 2011 TechTarget, Inc. All rights reserved. Designated trademarks and brands are the property of their respective owners. To unsubscribe from all TechTarget Security Media Group, Go to unsubscribe. TechTarget Security Media Group, 275 Grove Street, Newton, MA 02466 Contact: webmaster@techtarget.com When you access content from this newsletter, your information may be shared with the sponsors of that content as described in our Privacy Policy.