Chapter 1. Threat and Vulnerability Overview
In this chapter, we will cover the following topics:
- Risk overview
- Hypervisor threats
- Hypervisor vulnerabilities
- Guest virtual machine threats
- Guest virtual machine vulnerabilities
- Network threats
- Network vulnerabilities
- Storage threats
- Storage vulnerabilities
- Physical threats
- Physical vulnerabilities
- Security Concepts
Introduction
Risk management, while outside the scope of this book, is a key foundation in the creation of a secure system. Proper risk assessment will not only identify what is being protected, the cost, and the criticality of those assets, but also identify the likelihood of the system or systems being breached. With the state of governance, compliance, and the growing requirement to notify customers ...
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