Introduction to Securing Virtual Environments - Tapa dura

Rathore, Rajkumar Singh; Nawaf, Liqaa; Prakash, Shiv

 
9781685690557: Introduction to Securing Virtual Environments
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ISBN 10: 1685690556 ISBN 13: 9781685690557
Editorial: Artech House Publishers, 2026

Sinopsis

Introduction to Securing Virtual Environments delivers a complete strategic roadmap for defending modern virtual infrastructures against today's escalating cyber threats. This authoritative guide explains how virtualized systems function, identifies crucial failure points, and details the rigorous methodology for architecting protection against real-world adversaries. The text establishes a critical foundation for securing all large-scale virtual deployments across cloud and hybrid environments.

Practitioners are guided through the fundamentals of virtualization, learning where risks emerge, and how these environments fundamentally differ from traditional IT architectures. The resource details the mitigation techniques necessary to stop inter-virtual machine (VM) attacks, network exposures, and cloud-specific threats unique to hypervisors, VMs, and virtual storage systems. Combining broad conceptual coverage with hands-on guidance, readers will learn how to assess risk factors, strengthen access controls, and apply best practices for compliance frameworks such as HIPAA, PCI-DSS, and GDPR.

This is an essential reference for IT security professionals, cloud engineers, system administrators, and auditors responsible for hardening virtual infrastructures against attack. It provides valuable insights into zero trust models, container and Kubernetes security, disaster recovery, and intelligent context-aware defense approaches. Professionals acquire the knowledge required to meet evolving regulatory and organizational demands while ensuring high resilience and future-readiness across the enterprise.

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Acerca del autor

"Dr Rajkumar Singh Rathore currently serves as a Senior Lecturer(Associate Professor) and Program Director for the MSc in Computing and IT within the School of Technologies at Cardiff Metropolitan University, United Kingdom. He leads the Cyber-Physical and Networked Systems group at the CeRISS Research Centre and heads the Cybersecurity initiatives for Connected and Autonomous Systems at the CINC Research Centre. As a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (HEA) in the United Kingdom, Dr. Rathore has amassed several years of experience in scholarship of teaching learning and research excellence. He is the cluster head of a Responsible and Transparent Artificial Intelligence Research Cluster (RTAR-C) consisting of 15 international universities for joint research endeavours. Dr Liqaa Nawaf is a senior lecturer and research leader in the field of cyber security. She is the Programme Director for the MSc Advanced Cyber Security and BSc Applied Cyber Security Apprentices with the School of Technologies at Cardiff Metropolitan University (CMU) and a co-leader of Cybersecurity and Information Networks Centre (CINC). She holds a BSc (Hons), MSc Eng. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the New York Institute of Technology, and a Ph.D. degree in Distributed and Scientific Computing from the School of Computer Science and Informatics at Cardiff University. She holds a Fellowship of the Higher Education Academy. Shiv Prakash PhD, received the M.Tech. and Ph.D. degrees in Computer Science and Technology from Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India in 2010 and 2014, respectively. He has an excellent educational record throughout. He has more than two decades of experience in industry and academia as a senior subject matter expert and a faculty member in various organizations. "

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Editorial
Artech House Publishers
Año de publicación
2026
Idioma
Inglés
ISBN 10 
1685690556
ISBN 13 
9781685690557
Encuadernación
Tapa dura
Número de páginas
410
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