60% of virtualized servers will be less secure
This week everything falls into place. Gartner titles “60% of virtualized servers will be less secure than the physical servers they replace through 2012“ until 2012. This trend won’t change until 2015, when it shall drop to 30%. The Gartners report describes the possibility for hackers to exploit the client or the host with certain vulnerabilities to attack the hypervisor or other virtual machines.
This goes with the actual Microsoft Security-Bulletin under the headline “Vulnerability in Virtual PC and Virtual Server Could Allow Elevation of Privilege” and Searchsecurity marks “Patch for Microsoft Virtual PC weakness unlikely”. According to the Gartner report there is some time left until 2015…
