VMware published the draft version of the vSphere Security Hardening Guide. Keep in mind that it’s still draft and needs tweaking. The Team needs your feedback, so if you have any comments please don’t hesitate to reach out and leave a comment on the community forums. Overall, there are more than 100 guidelines. The guide itself is split into the [...]
HyTrust just published info on their latest and greatest version of their appliance which will be released on the 24th of August and will carry version number 1.5. Hytrust sits between your virtual environment and the admin and enforces granular authorization of all virtual infrastructure management operations, according to user role, object, label, protocol and IP address. If you will [...]
I wrote about HyTrust a month ago. Today HyTrust announced a community version. In short, for up to three host you can use a fully featured version of the Hytrust Appliance for free… HyTrust Appliance, Community Edition is now available for download now as a pre-built, VMware-compatible virtual appliance to members of HyTrust Community. To join the community free of [...]
Just a quick note that I wanted to get out… A security patch has been released. Please look at the following KB article and download, test and implement the patch. VMware ESX 3.5, Patch ESX350-200904201-SG: Updates VMX RPM Issues fixed in this patch (and their relevant symptoms, if applicable) include: A critical vulnerability in the virtual machine display function might [...]
A few weeks ago I had a conference call with an unknown company, well at least for me it was still unknown. Eric Chiu contacted me if he, and his team, could demonstrate their new product. HyTrust‘s product is an appliance. Not only virtual but also physical. But as a virtualization consultant of course the virtual appliance is what interested [...]
As it seems Tripwire is preparing a new toolkit. Opscheck is the first of more to come that has been released. Tripwire created a new website / community called vWire. They moved Configcheck over to vWire and added Opscheck to the list. Where Configcheck identifies possible security vulnerabilities and Opscheck checks for VMware VMotion support by rapidly analyzing ESX 3.0, [...]
When we were playing around with Site Recovery Manager last week we had the opportunity to ask a bunch of questions to Lee Dilworth. Lee is a Specialist System Engineer for Site Recovery Manager. During the discussion Lee told us about a document that Horst Mundt, also a VMware employee, wrote about using trusted certificates. We received the document via email [...]
