Best Practices for Hardening the Veeam Backup Repository (Windows)
A good way of hardening the backup repository is by running it on a standalone Windows Server with storage attached to it. Create/Use a local account with administrative access and make sure only this (newly created) account has access rights to the location where the…
How to harden the Veeam Backup Repository
The Veeam Backup Repository is a storage location used to store backup files, VM copies, configuration backups (BCO) and auxiliary replica files. There are several flavours of Veeam backup repositories, namely: Windows, Linux or Specific DeDuplication devices like the ExaGrid, EMC DataDomain or HPE StoreOnce….
5 Tips for Infrastructure Hardening
While compiling this blog post last couple of weeks this weekend all hell broke loose! A large-scale ransomware attack was launched against users of any Windows system worldwide. Showing us that security is all about a pre-care balance between protection and usability. Running your infrastructure in…
Additional capabilities to manage Transparent Page Sharing
Transparent Page Sharing (TPS) is the ability for virtual machines to share identical memory pages. This allows hosts to most efficiently use memory, particularly when those hosts have many almost identical virtual machines running on them. The net benefit is better memory usage, potentially leading…
Patrolling the Cloud border with HyTrust Boundary Controls
With more and more workloads (applications and data) virtualized and cloudinized the need for patrolling the border with Hytrust Boundary Controls is desperately needed. Virtualization and the cloud make data security more complicated. Virtual machines are by nature dynamic and highly portable. The benefits of virtual…
Available now: VMware vSphere 5.0 Hardening Guide
Last Friday, VMware released their vSphere 5.0 Security Hardening Guide v1.0. It’s a great and extensive guide to completely secure your VMware vSphere 5 Infrastructure from ESXi host to vCenter server and from the vNetwork to virtual machine. The coincidence is that yesterday I had…
VMsafe API
I sometimes wonder why some things in the industry go so quick, while on the other hand things go so slow. One of the things that goes so slow are the products that make use of the VMsafe API. Oké last year a couple of…
Virtualization increases risk of data loss?
‘Virtualization increases risk of data loss?‘ Let it be very clear that this is not my opinion but a quote from an article published today by the ‘Automatiserings Gids’ (NL) in which it quotes James Lyne, security specialist at Sophos. Lyne made his statements during…
vCenter security tips
Jason Boche posted a very good article on security of vCenter.I could try and explain it to you, but I think you’d be better of visiting the original article from Jason. He explains it by comparing it to NTFS security for Windows administrators. Link to…
VMware and security
A lot of people keep talking about the security of virtualization. They say it isn’t safe and stuff like that. I know this post is a couple of months old, but I think it is important to realize that VMware certainly finds security important.