Virtualization Risk Assessment Service In USA

Virtualization Risk Assessment

Virtualization Risk Assessment Services is an evaluation process that helps you identify and mitigate the risk to your virtual infrastructure. The assessment includes reviewing critical components which include people, process, and technology of which is a part of the virtual infrastructure. The process helps identify vulnerabilities and gaps in architecture or configurations using industry best practices, and implement remediation to close these gaps. The assessment process involves the evaluation of policies, procedures, and infrastructure including physical systems and network devices. The reports and findings from this assessment will include a detailed list of security vulnerabilities and gaps in the system.

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Our Approach to Virtualization Risk Assessment

Security Architecture Review

Our team will thoroughly evaluate the virtual infrastructure and security practices in the architecture and design, including networks, hosts virtual machines, and virtual infrastructure management design.

Virtual Infrastructure Security Testing

We will assess the security of the logical network, virtual server storage network, virtual infrastructure management network, and identify infrastructure attack surface and the associated risk.

Virtual Host Security Configuration Review

We assess and review configurations of sampled virtual machines and the host using industry best practices to identify insecure configurations associated with the deployed product.

Policy & Procedure Gap Analysis

Our team will assess the gap in current policies and procedures for virtual infrastructure according to the ISO 27001/27002 security standard.

Interviews

We will interview your virtualization administrators to assess their knowledge base in maintaining a secure virtualization infrastructure.

Business Continuity

Our team will also assess your ability to recover from a cyber-attack or downtime of your core virtualization infrastructure.

Why work with VISTA InfoSec?

Vendor Neutral- We believe in being your true consulting / audit partners by not indulging in sales of hardware/software that results in bias suggestions.

Strictly No Outsourcing- We value your trust in us so we do not outsource your critical assignments to the third-party.

Years of Experience- Your organization will benefit from our decade long years of Industry experience and knowledge.

Industry expertise- We will share industry-specific insight and relevant recommendations to help you enhance your security stance.

Detailed Assessment reports- We will provide you with a comprehensive virtual infrastructure security assessment report that details the list of security vulnerabilities.

Remediation- Our team will provide you with strategic, practical, and easy to understand recommendations to improve your virtual infrastructure security stance.

Industry Best Practice- We adopt best practices to ensure that your infrastructure is secure against potential attacks and threats.

Frequently Asked Questions on Virtualization Risk Assessment

Who needs a Virtualization Risk Assessment service?

Organizations looking to strengthen the security of their virtual infrastructure eg. VmWare.

Organizations looking to migrate their business processes to the Cloud.

Organizations looking to check the security governance of their potential Cloud service providers.

What is covered under this Assessment?

Virtualization Risk Assessment involves security architecture review, security configuration review, and virtual infrastructure security testing of the logical network, hypervisor, virtual server storage network, virtual switch fabric, virtual firewalls, and virtual infrastructure network.

Is Virtualization Risk Assessment required if we have performed Vulnerability Assessment of the VMs?

Yes, Virtualization Risk Assessment does not just cover evaluating the systems and networks but also covers reviewing of policies, procedure documentation, and relevant frameworks.

What tools are used for Virtualization Assessment?

Virtualization Assessment includes mostly checks by experienced personnel as per OEM / NIST / CIS / SANS guidelines, using vulnerability assessment scanning tools and manual efforts of professionals with specialized skill-sets.

How often do I need to perform Virtualization Assessment?

As per industry best practice, it is recommended that organizations perform a Virtualization Assessment of at least the hypervisor every quarter.

What is the validity of the reports?

There is no definite period defined, but the report may be considered valid for at least a quarter from the date of assessment. This is again dependent on requirements from various standards such as PCI DSS, SOC2, or even statutory/regulatory guidelines.

How does a Virtualization Risk Assessment benefit you?

Assessment helps identify security vulnerabilities.

The assessment determines new security requirements.

Helps improve the current security risk posture of your virtual infrastructure.

Facilitates decision making is resource allocation for strengthening your virtual infrastructure.

Evaluates your readiness for migrations to cloud deployment infrastructures.