Chandramouli, R.
, Feldman, L.
and Witte, G.
(2018),
Safeguards for Securing Virtualized Servers, ITL Bulletin, National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, MD, [online], https://tsapps.nist.gov/publication/get_pdf.cfm?pub_id=925410
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Safeguards for Securing Virtualized Servers
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Author(s)
Ramaswamy Chandramouli, Larry Feldman, Gregory A. Witte
Abstract
This bulletin summarizes the information found in NIST SP 800-125A: Security Recommendations for Hypervisor Deployment on Servers, which provides technical guidelines regarding the secure execution of baseline functions of the hypervisor and are therefore agnostic to the hypervisor architecture.Citation
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Keywords
Virtualization, Hypervisor, Virtual Machine, Virtual Network, Guest OS
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Created March 27, 2018, Updated May 4, 2021