Anyone who thinks VMs can be used to improve customers' security is, in the words of Roger Grimes, "either drunk on the marketing Kool-Aid, misinformed, or simply trying to misrepresent VM capabilities to sell more product."
In all but a small minority of cases, they will not improve your overall security posture, Grimes explains in Virtual machines are not really more secure.
"By their very nature, VMs have the same security risks as physical computers, plus they have additional guest-to-guest and guest-to-host security risks."
Posted by Tom Sullivan on April 18, 2008 05:31 AM
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