Implementing Security on virtualized network storage environment
Benard O. Osero, David Gitonga Mwathi · 2014
This paper presents a literature study on various security issues in virtualization technologies. Our study focus mainly on some security vulnerabilities that virtualization brings to the virtualized and open environment. We delve into security issues that are unique for Network attached disks. The security threats presented here are common to all the virtualization technologies available in the market; they are not specific to a single virtualization technology. We provide an overview of various virtualization technologies available in the market at the first place together with some security benefits that come together with virtualization. Finally we provide a detailed discussion of virtualization model running on a virtualized environment where a client machine interacts with a virtualized file server to directly access a file from storage area network (SAN).