Last Updated on February 17, 2019 by Admin
A college uses virtualization technology to deploy information security courses. Some of the lab exercises involve studying the characteristics of computer viruses and worms. What is an advantage of conducting the lab exercises inside the virtualized environment as opposed to using actual PCs?
- The lab exercises are performed faster inside of the virtualized environment.
- The virtualization environment has better tools to develop mitigation solutions.
- Virus and worm attacks are more easily controlled in a virtualized environment, thus helping to protect the college network and its devices from attack.
- The viruses and worms will have limited functionality inside the virtualized environment.
Explanation:
Virtualization can create a controlled environment that is isolated from external networks. Because of shared system resources, the performance inside a virtual environment will not be faster. However, the benefit is that a virtual environment provides a safe platform for information security analysis.