OIC-CERT JOURNAL OF CYBER SECURITY
ISSN 2636-9680 | eISSN 2682-9266

Vulnerability Assessment and Penetration Testing of Virtualization

Abstract:

Virtualization brings us lots of significant usages and is a useful technology in data centres and cloud computing. Using virtualization could either reduce security issues or bring new ones. In this research we have tried to review security advantages and disadvantages of virtualization technology. Security specialists assess the security of a system using automatic tools for penetration testing and vulnerability assessment. In this paper, we also review some of the tools that can be used in security assessment of virtualization.

Author(s):

Ramin Vakili
CERT Laboratory
Faculty of Engineering
Imam-Khomeini International University, Qazvin, Iran

Hamid Reza Hamidi
CERT Laboratory
Faculty of Engineering
Imam-Khomeini International University, Qazvin, Iran