Again about the clouds. Several tools for VMware virtual infrastructure administrators

In the VMware Community published a message from Mike Foley, the permanent author of the vSphere Hardening Guide, that the new version of the guide has become available for download .

vSphere Hardening Guide is a collection of information about vulnerabilities, types of operations that eliminate these vulnerabilities, procedures for assessing compliance with safety standards, etc. The document is designed as an Excel workbook; VUM, SSO, WebClient, VCSA).
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For each object, all types of operations are listed, allowing them to maintain compliance with security policies, a version of the objects to which these operations are applicable, brief descriptions of them, as well as procedures to check whether the operation was performed or not.

The document is primarily useful for administrators in organizations that are forced to follow industry and government regulations, such as PCI, SOX, etc. For these organizations, VMware also offers a number of free verification tools, such as:

- VMware DISA Compliance Checker for Windows and Linux
- VMware HIPAA Compliance Checker for Windows and Linux
- vSphere 5.5 VMware Hardening Guidelines Checker
- vSphere 5.1 VMware Hardening Guidelines Checker
- vSphere 5.0 VMware Hardening Guidelines Checker
- vSphere 4.1 VMware Hardening Guidelines Checker
- vSphere 4.0 VMware Hardening Guidelines Checker
- PCI 2.0 Compliance Guidelines Checker

All of them are available on this page .

The last thing I would like to point out: in order to ensure the security of the virtual infrastructure, it is not enough to perform the settings of the parameters “by the book” once. This is an ongoing process, part of which is monitoring changes in infrastructure. This can help you another tool - Netwrix Auditor-VMware , which provides clear reports on all changes that have occurred over any period of time. Software and sample reports are available on the website .

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