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Thursday, August 22, 2013

How Vulnerable Is Your Hyper-V Server?

 

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This is the most common question that we always ask ? I’m not sure. Well, now I can easily get the answer, thanks to 5Nine who just released 5Nine Security and Scanner for Hyper-V FREE Beta. If you’re interested, feel free to

Download the 5nine Security for Hyper-V FREE!

A bit information about the product:-

  • It’s FREE and doesn't require any software licenses
  • Free Agentless/Host-Based Anti-Virus
    • Reduce capital expenditure by increasing VM density 15-30%
    • No anti-virus storms or crashed machines
    • Save network bandwidth
  • Free Hyper-V Virtual Firewall
    • Secure and Firewall VM's from the outside as well as from each other
  • Free Security and Compliance Scanner
    • Virtual Machines Firewall Protection Status Check
    • Extensive Free AV Check
    • Performance Check
    • IDS Status Check
    • Detailed Executive Report
    • Security Enhancement Recommendations

Let have a look on how vulnerable of our existing Hyper-V server.

Once installed, just double click the icon “5Nine Security and Compliance Scanner" and click Start Scan.

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This process will take a while. Let take a break with a cup of coffee……

After a while…

Well, it look like the result is not as good as I’m expecting based on the summary screen.

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To know more, click View Report.

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We got 2 critical and 2 warnings health detected. Let look deep on the report.

Security section

My system don’t have VM firewall and IDS to protect the infrastructure. Sad smile

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Performance section

Based on ratio, CPU performance is adequate but I’ve exhausted memory which I should probably request for an additional memory upgrade to support large workload running on Hyper-V. Smile

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Antivirus section

No agentless anti-malware detected to protect our VM.

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Hmm…It is time for us to consider security in order to protect our virtualization infrastructure.