Putting all your eggs in one basket has never been a great idea – by not securing your virtual environment – you’re doing just that with your corporate data.

Without any security, your virtual host server isn’t far from being an open door – a direct route into your organisation for pretty much anyone with a little knowledge 
to access, compromise or corrupt every virtual machines you’ve got: not an appealing prospect!
Although it’s not impossible for the same thing to happen in a physical world: most servers and desktops after all have some form of security layer in their build – however basic: there probably isn’t a network out there that doesn’t include IDS, Firewalls, DLP or Anti-Virus in some guise. It provides a minimum level of security against internal and external threats that just doesn’t apply in a new virtual infrastructure. Virtual machines’ lack of individual security provision and their dynamic nature means that unless security is over-layered at the management level, they’re wide open to attack – in a way that most systems or network devices aren’t.
But securing the virtual world isn’t all bad news: a brand new virtual deployment gives you a unique opportunity to implement security policies and procedures from scratch – using the latest technologies. That’s rarely possible in a physical network where legacy systems, multiple vendor solutions, anomalies and upgrades mean that policies and procedures can be difficult to implement and harder still to enforce or police.
Your HyperVisor and management console are the gatekeepers to your whole virtual infrastructure, so not deploying some form of security solutions to protect them isn’t an option, it’s a necessity – unless you like scrambled eggs!

The VMinformer Community Edition allows security professionals and those tasked with managing virtual infrastructures the ability to assess the overall security configuration of their virtual environment. Critical virtual infrastructure assets can be rapidly assessed against out of the box policy templates based on industry standards such as CIS and PCI benchmarks.

The VMinformer Community Edition is a free, single user version with most of the capabilities of VMinformer PRO.

VMinformer provides:-

• Simple deployment - installs on a laptop or workstation in minutes
• Out of the box policies - based on standard industry benchmarks
• Remediation guidance - helps identify risks to your infrastructure quickly and accurately and provides step by step fix guidance
• No cost start up security solution - provides a free entry level solution for your virtual environment

To download the community edition of the tool follow this link