Finding the Right Approach: Three Ways to Protect Your Virtual Environment - Virtual Strategy Magazine

Virtual Strategy Magazine, By Mark Bermingham, Kaspersky Lab Virtualization Evangelist

Organizations are often in a hurry to embrace the business benefits of virtualization, including:

• Energy and IT cost savings
• Improved server provisioning
• Simplified application deployment
• Improved disaster recovery
• Decreased hardware costs
• Minimized space requirements
• Increased reliability
• Centralized managementand monitory tools
• Rapid launch of new services      
• An easily-scalable IT infrastructure

Unfortunately, as the prevalence of virtualization grows, cybercriminals are increasingly looking at virtual environments as a ripe frontier for launching attacks. While today’s organizations recognize the importance of securing their virtual environment, many IT professionals don’t know that specialized security solutions have been designed to deliver both security and efficiency for virtual environments. Read more.