Publication date : 04/03/2024

Course : Securing your virtualized environment

Synthesis course - 2d - 14h00 - Ref. VMW
Price : 1720 € E.T.

Securing your virtualized environment




This course will provide you with a technical overview of solutions for ensuring the security of your virtualized environments: from the main weaknesses of virtualized architectures to the optimum implementation of security solutions.


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IN-HOUSE
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Synthesis course in person or remote class
Disponible en anglais, à la demande

Ref. VMW
  2d - 14h00
1720 € E.T.




This course will provide you with a technical overview of solutions for ensuring the security of your virtualized environments: from the main weaknesses of virtualized architectures to the optimum implementation of security solutions.


Teaching objectives
At the end of the training, the participant will be able to:
Identify security threats in virtualized environments
Understanding attack typologies
Secure virtual data centers, VMs, servers and workstations
Evaluate available tools and techniques

Intended audience
IT managers, production/operations managers and system or network administrators.

Prerequisites
Basic knowledge of technical architecture (systems and networks) and IT security.

Course schedule

1
Introduction to safety

  • Safety: reactive, proactive, predictive.
  • Internal and external threats.
  • Fields of application (servers, workstations, clients, applications).

2
Virtualization techniques

  • Context isolation, hypervirtualization, paravirtualization.
  • I/O virtualization, classic and container.
  • Unikernel systems, microviewers.

3
Safety in the industrial environment

  • Reason's model.
  • Organizations and disasters.
  • Backups, replications, DRP.
  • Trusted third party, man-in-the-middle attack.

4
Security in a virtualized environment

  • Industrial benefits, risks.
  • Diapers to watch out for.
  • The Zero Trust security model: a new paradigm?
  • Microsegmentation.
  • Defense in depth.
  • Security domains: network, system, management, applications.

5
Security with VMware

  • OSI layers.
  • VLANs, routing, virtual switches, VSS, VDS, N1KV, VXLAN and logical switches.
  • Certification services provider, AD, LDAP, Nis, VMware NSX Edge.
  • System security principles: trusted zones (DMZ), password policy.
  • Encryption algorithms, public and private keys, self-signed certificates, trusted authority.

6
VMware application security

  • Antivirus: VMsafe API, vShield Endpoint.
  • Application mapping, flow management.
  • Isolation: application sandboxing, containers.
  • VMware Photon, ieVM.
  • API protection.

7
Prediction, prevention, detection and remediation

  • Overview of tools (Nessus, Nmap, Kali).
  • Intrusion detection and testing.
  • Logs, machine learning.
  • Behavioral analysis.
  • Risks and criticality: vCenter Operations Manager (VMware).
  • Risk mapping.
  • Supervision and monitoring, alarms.

8
Management security

  • ACL, simple authentication, roles and privileges.
  • Social engineering.
  • BYOD, shadow IT (rogue IT).
  • Virtual infrastructure hardening plan.
  • Update and backup management.


Customer reviews
4,2 / 5
Customer reviews are based on end-of-course evaluations. The score is calculated from all evaluations within the past year. Only reviews with a textual comment are displayed.
ELHADJI D.
14/10/25
5 / 5

Fine
SAMUEL C.
14/10/25
4 / 5

Lots of general topics not specific to virtualisation



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REMOTE CLASS
2026 : 2 June, 24 Nov.

PARIS LA DÉFENSE
2026 : 2 June, 24 Nov.