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Source: Rational Survivability - Posted by Ryan Berens   
Host Security VMware and virtualization security is just beginning to heat up. In this article, we get an interesting view into the nature of this debacle. Should it be a surprise that security is going to be such an issue? According to this blogger, far, far from it; virtualization provides such a compelling shift in computing, that being caught "flatfooted" is embarrassing...

For the purpose of this post, I'm going to focus on the security implications of virtualization and simply summarize by suggesting that virtualization up until now has quietly marked a tipping point where we see the disruption stretch security architectures and technologies to their breaking point and in many cases make much of our invested security portfolio redundant and irrelevant. Ouch! Read on...

Read this full article at Rational Survivability

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