NOBODY has any feedback about this? That's really surprising. Like,
REALLY surprising...
My (limited) understanding is that if they hack into a machine within
the cluster they've essentially hacked into EVERY machine in that
cluster. How big of a deal that is, though, I'm not sure. If you
consider that the same can be said if someone hacks into any machine
on your NETWORK, then what's the difference?
I also note you said "cluster"; are you referring hacking into the ESX
layer and not the guest OS? At the ESX layer there are proof of
concept attacks but none in the wild that I am aware of. Any body's
guess as to how vulnerable you would be, as well. I suppose a lot of
that would depend on best practices and how they're adopted to your
network. I'd also make sure IDS was running and pushing the data off
to a remote syslog server...
Can anyone expand on this, please? Personally I'd love to get a
greater understanding....
Thanks.
On Mon, Apr 21, 2008 at 5:23 AM, Paul Heywood
<Paul.Heywood@unitypartnership.com> wrote:
Hi forum,
we've got a VMware ESX group of servers running on the inside of our
network. Our server team want to extend this to include some DMZ servers. How
vulnerable would this leave the internal network ? Am I correct in thinking
that if the VMware cluster was hacked, this would give them access to the
internal network
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