The Chief Technology Officer (CTO) has decided that servers in the company datacenter should
be virtualized to conserve physical space. The risk assurance officer is concerned that the project
team in charge of virtualizing servers plans to co-mingle many guest operating systems with
different security requirements to speed up the rollout and reduce the number of host operating
systems or hypervisors required.
Which of the following BEST describes the risk assurance officer’s concerns?
A.
Co-mingling guest operating system with different security requirements allows guest OS
privilege elevation to occur within the guest OS via shared memory allocation with the host OS.
B.
Co-mingling of guest operating systems with different security requirements increases the risk
of data loss if the hypervisor fails.
C.
A weakly protected guest OS combined with a host OS exploit increases the chance of a
successful VMEscape attack being executed, compromising the hypervisor and other guest OS.
D.
A weakly protected host OS will allow the hypervisor to become corrupted resulting in data
throughput performance issues.