VMware vSphere Security Design: Architecture
Part 2 of 3 in the VMware vSphere Security Design series focuses on designing and building a secure VMware environment.
What you'll learn
Part 2 of 3 in the VMware vSphere Security Design series focuses on designing and building a secure VMware environment. The goal of this course is to take you beyond basic implementation, configuration, and administration of VMware vSphere and teach you the skills needed to properly secure a vSphere environment. You’ll learn information security and risk management concepts, how virtualization affects security, guidelines and best practices for securing a virtual environment, and securing virtual machines. This course is recommended for those who have existing VMware vSphere knowledge who want to enhance their security knowledge.
Table of contents
- ESX Hardening - User and Group Configuration 7m
- Sudo 6m
- Customize SSH 4m
- Secure ESX Web Proxy 2m
- Configuring Password Policies 6m
- Configure the ESX Firewall 4m
- ESXi Hardening - Enabling ESXi Lockdown Mode 7m
- Tech Support and Remote Tech Support Configuration 5m
- Isolating the ESX/ESXi and vCenter Management Networks 1m
- Enabling Certificate Checking in vCenter 3m
- Configuring CA Signed Certificates 12m
- Configure SSL Timeouts 1m
- What We Covered 1m
- Use a Firewall or Access Control Lists 1m
- Use an Antivirus Solution 1m
- Use VMware Update Manager 5m
- Limit Who Has Console Access 9m
- Do Not Use the VMCI if Possible 2m
- Isolate VMotion and/or FT Networks 1m
- Use vCenter Roles 1m
- Use Virtual Machine Log Rotation 5m
- Turn off or Disable Unneeded Services 1m
- Turn on Auditing and/or Logging 1m
- What We Covered 2m
About the author
Lane has worked in the IT industry for over 13 years. He has worked as a Server, Network, and Virtualization engineer in both private and public sector organizations. Lane has spent the last 6 years in a consulting role for 3 different Systems Integrators implementing, designing, and architecting VMware Infrastructure, Cisco and HP networking, and EMC, NetApp, HP, and IBM storage solutions for customers. He currently works for ENS Inc. out of Sacramento, CA as a Senior Systems Engineer where he ... more