[Cialug] Meeting - Wednesday 19th

[Theron Conrey]

Todd:
        I was talking about physical security playing just a large a role, if not larger, for a datacenter that heavily uses virtualization.  Before (we're excluding network based attacks for this conversation) someone would notice if Earl from accounting was walking out of the server room with a 1U server and someone would notice that this server had gone offline.  However today, the possibility exists in a virtualized environment for a clone to be made of a server while it's running, and a server to walk out the door in someone's pocket (cloned and copied to a USB stick).
        This is just another way that people need to be thinking about the portability of servers in a virtualized environment.  Above is a "security concern" that needs to be thought of.  From a technician's perspective this has a lot of usefulness.  I can now walk out of a datacenter with a server in my pocket, that's a lot easier on my back then a racked beast.  Properly configured, I don't even need to go in the datacenter to get a copy of the server.    That doesn't take into consideration account the tough job of securing access to the virtual machine, or pretend to address the security implications that have now arisen.  I think that the benefits extremely outweigh the concerns, but they'll certainly take some creative thinking to address.

-Theron

-----Original Message-----
From: cialug-bounces at cialug.org [mailto:cialug-bounces at cialug.org] On Behalf Of Todd Walton
Sent: Thursday, September 20, 2007 10:06 PM
To: Central Iowa Linux Users Group
Subject: Re: [Cialug] Meeting - Wednesday 19th

On 9/20/07, David Champion <dchampion at visionary.com> wrote:
> Thanks to the presenters at the meeting last night - that was good
> stuff.

I agree.  I'm trying to recall something: What did Theron say about security of the datacenter?  He said it's a lot more important when you have lots of virtualized servers, but I can't remember why.

I would be interested in a vug (or vmug or whatnot), though not as heavily as some might be.

-todd
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