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• April 28, 2016 28 Apr'16

  Secure cloud hosting: Why taking ownership is crucial

  Chase Cunningham of Armor spoke with SearchCloudSecurity at RSA Conference 2016 about the value of secure cloud hosting services, threat intelligence and more.

• October 30, 2015 30 Oct'15

  Xen hypervisor security flaw patched after seven years

  A critical Xen hypervisor security flaw that allows attackers to access host operating systems and had gone undiscovered for several years was finally patched this week.

• May 13, 2015 13 May'15

  VENOM zero-day vulnerability strikes virtual machine security

  CrowdStrike security researchers discovered a major bug that could impact a wide range of commonly-used virtualization platforms.

• March 10, 2015 10 Mar'15

  Amazon dodges another AWS reboot, but how?

  In a surprise move, Amazon Web services was able to patch a Xen hypervisor security flaw without a mass reboot of its EC2 infrastructure. So how did AWS pull it off?

• October 09, 2014 09 Oct'14

  Provider reboots call cloud computing hypervisor security into question

  After a Xen hypervisor flaw led several major cloud providers to reboot their host servers, experts say future cloud computing hypervisor security issues will likely cause further service disruptions.

• December 09, 2013 09 Dec'13

  Expert: Security automation can thwart attacks on cloud computing

  Nation-states are turning their attacks toward the cloud. One expert explains why he believes security automation is the only viable defense tactic.

• October 09, 2013 09 Oct'13

  VMware NSX platform: Implications for network virtualization security

  Expert Paul Kirvan discusses the debut of the VMware NSX platform and what it means to both network virtualization security and cloud security.

• September 19, 2012 19 Sep'12

  Bromium launches Windows PC security product

  Company uses virtualization technology to isolate malware from the rest of the system.

• August 28, 2012 28 Aug'12

  VMware unveils vCloud Networking and Security

  The vCloud Networking and Security package, featuring vShield Edge and vShield App, is designed to make virtualization security easier to implement.

• August 27, 2012 27 Aug'12

  Vendors roll out new tools for securing VMware environments

  At VMworld 2012, security suppliers plan to showcase new antimalware protection, policy enforcement products to secure VMware environments.

• August 22, 2012 22 Aug'12

  Crisis Trojan can infect VMware machines, Windows Mobile devices

  The AV giant says the Windows version of the Crisis Trojan may be the first malware that can spread to so many different platforms.

• July 17, 2012 17 Jul'12

  Cisco acquires VM security startup

  Deal boosts networking giant's cloud security technology.

• May 07, 2012 07 May'12

  McAfee and Intel cloud computing security strategy unveiled

  Companies offer up collection of technologies to help overcome enterprise concern about cloud security.

• April 25, 2012 25 Apr'12

  VMware downplays ESX hypervisor source code leak

  Company says source code was leaked online but says may not mean increased risk.

• August 30, 2011 30 Aug'11

  Antivirus for VMware options expand

  New antivirus capabilities for virtual servers showcased at VMworld and Trend Micro updates Deep Security.