"Addressing the Security Challenges of Virtualization" Webcast: Recording and Q&A

What you'll learn

• See our Nessus 5.0 and Scanning Virtual Machines document for more information. - Nessus offers support for Oracle VirtualBox (formerly Sun VirtualBox) in the form of remote checks for any platform and local credentialed plugin checks when installed on Microsoft Windows. Since VirtualBox is included in many OS distributions, Nessus also offers a variety of local credentialed checks specific to Debian, FreeBSD, Gentoo, Mandriva, and SuSE. - Nessus currently offers remote support for Citrix XenServer, specifically several detection plugins for XenServer and associated services. Tenable plans to add support for local, credentialed checks this year, as well as compliance audits that are currently under development. - Nessus has support for auditing Microsoft Hyper-V technology. Remotely, via API, Nessus can detect and enumerate virtual machines, as well as use several Microsoft Security Bulletin-based plugins to test for known vulnerabilities.