Question

Discuss, in your own words using 500 words or more, how virtualization may create it's own security vulnerabilities.

Answer 1

virtualization is nothing but creating a layer using software over the computer hardware it reduces the cost of IT expenses.

Virtualization is mostly using now a days.

But there are vulnerabilities in virtualization:-

Because virutualization is dynamic i.e. the mapping of software can be assigned dynamically and the client can be request the access of cloud services from any location.

we may have many vulnerabilities

1) VM escape :-

we know that virutualization run through a machine called virtual machine or hypervisor so VM escape is a vulnerability that inside the virutal machine the attackers will insert a malicious program to remove the isolate boundary so that the attackers can get access to the machine and make other illegal works with the machine this is one type of vulnerability in the virtualization.

2)Hypervisor vulnerability:-

Using hypervisor or the virtual machine monitor we can run the host machines simultaneously. The virtual machine monitor of the hypervisor both can be accesible to attacks if any attacker access the hypervisor or the virtual machine monitor they can easily take the control of the host machine and data.

The attacks also difficult to detect.

3) Hyperjacking:-

Hyperjacking is an attack by which the attacker takes the control over the operating system so that data can be hacked easily.

This is one kind of vulnerability which will be difficult to detect.

4) VM Sprawl:-

VM sprawl vulrnerability issue is the duplication of the virtual machine so that the virtual machine is accesible to the attackers.

These are the many types of vulnerabilities which are likely to be happened to the virutalization.