Safeguards for Securing Virtualized Servers

Chandramouli, Ramaswamy; Feldman, Larry; Witte, Gregory

ITL Bulletin

Safeguards for Securing Virtualized Servers

Documentation Topics

Date Published: March 2018

Editor(s)

Ramaswamy Chandramouli (NIST), Larry Feldman (G2), Gregory Witte (G2)

Abstract

This bulletin summarizes the information found in NIST SP 800-125A: Security Recommendations for Hypervisor Deployment on Servers, which provides technical guidelines regarding the secure execution of baseline functions of the hypervisor and are therefore agnostic to the hypervisor architecture.

Keywords

Virtualization, Hypervisor, Virtual Machine, Virtual Network, Guest OS

Control Families

None selected

Documentation

Publication:
March 2018 ITL Bulletin

Supplemental Material:
None available

Related NIST Publications:
SP 800-125A

Document History:
03/27/18: ITL Bulletin (Final)

Topics

Security and Privacy
planning

Technologies
cloud & virtualization; servers

Laws and Regulations
OMB Circular A-130