Virtualization: What are the security risks?
Kurt M. Fanning, David M. Cannon · Journal of Corporate Accounting & Finance · 2011
Abstract Virtualization—using a powerful computer to emulate many smaller computers—is an increasingly popular information technology. To the users, it is as if each has his own small separate computer. This can increase organizational agility, reduce costs, and increase the return on IT investments. But this technological trend also brings new security risks. What are they, and how can companies control those risks? The authors of this article have some answers. © 2011 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.