Company XYZ provides hosting services for hundreds of companies across multiple industries
including healthcare, education, and manufacturing. The security architect for company XYZ is
reviewing a vendor proposal to reduce company XYZ’s hardware costs by combining multiple
physical hosts through the use of virtualization technologies. The security architect notes concerns
about data separation, confidentiality, regulatory requirements concerning PII, and administrative
complexity on the proposal. Which of the following BEST describes the core concerns of the
security architect?
A.
Most of company XYZ’s customers are willing to accept the risks of unauthorized disclosure
and access to information by outside users.
B.
The availability requirements in SLAs with each hosted customer would have to be re-written to
account for the transfer of virtual machines between physical platforms for regular maintenance.
C.
Company XYZ could be liable for disclosure of sensitive data from one hosted customer when
accessed by a malicious user who has gained access to the virtual machine of another hosted
customer.
D.
Not all of company XYZ’s customers require the same level of security and the administrative
complexity of maintaining multiple security postures on a single hypervisor negates hardware cost
savings.