It occurred to me that virtual machine monitors (VMMs) provide similar functionality to that of operating systems.
Virtualization supports functions such as these:
1. Availability
* Minimized downtime for patching OSes and applications
* Restart a crashed OS or server
2. Scalability
* More or different images as demand changes
3. Isolation and compartmentalization
4. Better hardware utilization
5. Hardware abstraction for OSes
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If you are intrigued by OVAL, the Open Vulnerability and Assessment Language, and are considering developing rules in it or just want to understand the technical details of how it works, you will need to look at its schemas. The OVAL Design Document, Version 5.0 states that there are 3 schemas, for “representing configuration information […]

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Common Vulnerability Scoring System
The Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) is an open standard for assigning scores to a vulnerability that indicates its relative severity compared to other vulnerabilities. It offers visibility into how each score was calculated by revealing the underlying vulnerability characteristics that are inputs to the score calculation. NVD publishes CVSS scores for […]

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Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE®) 
Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) is a list or dictionary that provides common identifiers for publicly known information security vulnerabilities and exposures. Using a common identifier makes it easier to share data across separate databases and tools that until CVE were not easily integrated. This makes CVE the key to information […]

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The Security Content Automation Protocol (SCAP), pronounced “S Cap”, is a method for using specific standards to enable automated vulnerability management, measurement, and policy compliance evaluation (e.g., FISMA compliance). More specifically, SCAP is a suite of selected open standards that enumerate software flaws, security related configuration issues, and product names; measure systems to determine the […]

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This security plan is our first. We will take a broad view of the security risks facing the firm and take prompt action to reduce our exposure. Everyone remembers the virus attack we had earlier this year, and we hope to avoid another disaster like that! However, I hope that by taking a wider view, […]

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