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vSphere Security at Security Field Day 2

Bob Plankers posted June 25th, 2019

VMware was proud to continue our decade-long relationship with Tech Field Day by hosting the delegates of Security Field Day 2 (#XFD2) on June 20, 2019, sharing with them both the overall strategy for security in VMware products as well as very specific technical discussions around vSphere, vSphere Platinum, VMware AppDefense, and VMware WorkspaceOne. There Read more...

vSphere Compliance: Common Criteria, NIST 800-53, and DISA STIG

Bob Plankers posted June 21st, 2019

Security is a hot topic everywhere in IT, but right behind it is its cousin, compliance. VMware vSphere is a great platform for organizations that have regulatory compliance needs. Hundreds of time-saving, easy-to-use, and flexible features in vSphere align closely with compliance frameworks, and VMware provides guidance on how to configure these features to meet Read more...

Security Issue with VMware Tools: VMSA-2019-0009

Kev Johnson posted June 10th, 2019

Vulnerability Summary Customers should be aware of an important issue with VMware Tools where a non-privileged user on a Windows VM could read information or cause problems in a VM running VMware Tools lower than 10.3.10. The official designation from VMware is VMSA-2019-0009 on the VMware Security Advisories page and mailing list. This vulnerability is Read more...

10 Things To Know About vSphere Certificate Management

Bob Plankers posted June 4th, 2019

With security and compliance on the minds of IT staff everywhere, vSphere certificate management is a huge topic. Decisions made can seriously affect the effort it takes to support a vSphere deployment, and often create vigorous discussions between CISO and information security staff, virtualization admins, and enterprise PKI/certificate authority admins. Here are ten things that Read more...

Virtualization-Based Security Issues with Windows 1903/19H1 Releases

Bob Plankers posted May 20th, 2019

Users of Virtualization-Based Security or the virtual I/O MMU features in vSphere should take note of a serious issue that has been discovered with the 1903, 19H1, and May 2019 updates to Windows 10, Windows Server, and Windows Server 2019 LTSC editions. In short, a new installation of the OS at these levels, or an Read more...

Which vSphere CPU Scheduler to Choose

Bob Plankers posted May 14th, 2019

The release of vSphere 6.7 Update 2 brought with it a new vSphere CPU scheduler option, the Side-Channel Aware Scheduler version 2 (SCAv2) or “Sibling Scheduler.” This new scheduler can help restore some performance lost to CPU vulnerability mitigations, but also carries some risk with it. Further complicating matters is the newest Intel CPU vulnerability, Read more...

Building a Secure Data Center that You Can Carry in a Backpack with vSphere 6.7

Mike Foley posted April 16th, 2019

Mobile data centers in the field help modern military forces stay connected and execute their missions. Cubic Mission Solutions works with VMware to deliver lightweight systems for the U.S. military and its allies that are truly portable, easy to use, and highly secure. VMware vSphere 6.7 and VMware vSAN 6.7 allow Cubic to build smaller, Read more...

Updates to VM Compatibility and VMware Tools with vSphere 6.7 Update 2

Kev Johnson posted April 9th, 2019

With VMware Tools version 10.0 VMware took the decision to separate it’s release cycle from that of vSphere. On that note I’m pleased to announce that the latest release of the VMware Tools 10.3 codebase is now available for download. In vSphere 6.7 Update 2 we also introduce a new version of VM Compatibility (formerly Read more...

vSphere Platinum 6.7 Update 2 Brings New Visualizations, Capabilities, and Security Features

Bob Plankers posted April 3rd, 2019

The release of vSphere 6.7 Update 2 was announced (and will soon be generally available as an update and download), bringing improvements and fixes to all editions of vSphere. This includes vSphere Platinum 6.7 Update 2, the premier edition of vSphere that features AppDefense. If you aren’t familiar with VMware AppDefense it is cutting edge Read more...

Announcing vSphere 6.7 Update 2, vSphere Platinum updates, and vSphere ROBO Enterprise

Himanshu Singh posted April 2nd, 2019

I am excited to share that today we are announcing the VMware vSphere 6.7 Update 2 release, with key enhancements that will deliver an efficient and more secure hybrid cloud platform to our customers. We are also announcing the new vSphere Remote Office Branch Office Enterprise edition, as well as updates going specifically into vSphere Read more...

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