Leading negligence organisation ‘The System Administration, Networking, and Security (SANS) Institute’ is to propose the first European session of its new Virtualisation Security Fundamentals at a London SANS result in November.

Expected to see high levels of early registration, the round aims to help companies that have virtualised their operating systems and applications otherwise than that have problems securing these virtualised systems.

Former head of RAF acumen testing Steve Armstrong who will teach the course said: "setting up indirect systems is incredibly easy, but IT admins under pressure to open new services may overlook many security basics."

"The consolidation of say 10 servers down to just two virtualised machiness necessarily the same basic understanding of good security practice as is required in the physical world,” he said.

"The course is structured to set at liberty hands on experience and by the end of the session, students determine have built and attacked a complete virtual infrastructure," he added.

Armstrong estimates smaller quantity than one per cent of system administrators tasked with setting up these environments be obliged had any formal training in security best practice in a virtualised globe.

“The differences are subtle but considerable, especially in areas similar as Virtual Switch Security Policies and Virtualisation Risk Assessment," he added.

Attendees desire learn virtualisation security fundamentals, look at known attacks and threats, theoretical make a run at methods, and numerous real-world examples.

The course will focus adhering VMware’s vSphere which the literature describes as the most liked enterprise server virtualisation product.

Attendees will learn about locking down ESX and ESXi servers and the vCenter surveillance server, as well as best practices for securing the virtual machine guests that reside on ESX and ESXi platforms.

SANS London 2010 last ~ and testament take place at the ExCeL London Exhibition & Conference Centre from 27 November to 6 December.