Monday, February 3, 2020

ESXI details

ESXI : a hypervisor with following feature

Security:
              Memory Hardening: The ESXi kernel,  user-mode applications and executable components are kept in a random and non predictable memory space
              Kernel module integrity:  Digital signing ensures the integrity and authenticity of modules, drivers, and applications as they are loaded by VMkernel
             Trusted Platform Module (TPM): A hardware element that creates a trusted platform and enables  affirmation that the boot process and all drivers loaded are genuine.
              UEFI secure boot: applicable for the systems that support UEFI secure boot firmware whre a digital certificate is chained with VIBs(VMware infrastucture bundle).  a verifier checks that digital certificate before all processes during boot time


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ESXI details

ESXI : a hypervisor with following feature Security :               Memory Hardening: The ESXi kernel,  user-mode applications and execu...