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Safeguards for Securing Virtualized Servers

Published

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
ITL Bulletin -

Keywords

Virtualization, Hypervisor, Virtual Machine, Virtual Network, Guest OS

Citation

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 (Accessed May 4, 2024)
Created March 27, 2018, Updated May 4, 2021