Extending Network Security into Virtualized Infrastructure

Chandramouli, Ramaswamy; Feldman, Larry; Witte, Gregory

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ITL Bulletin

Extending Network Security into Virtualized Infrastructure

Documentation Topics

Date Published: June 2016

Author(s)

Ramaswamy Chandramouli (NIST), Larry Feldman (G2), Gregory Witte (G2)

Abstract

This bulletin summarizes the information presented in NIST Special Publication (SP) 800-125B, "Secure Virtual Network Configuration for Virtual Machine (VM) Protection." That publication provides an analysis of various virtual network configuration options for protection of VMs and to present recommendations based on the analysis.

Keywords

overlay network; virtual firewall; virtual machine; virtual network segmentation; VLAN

Control Families

None selected

Documentation

Publication:
June 2016 ITL Bulletin (pdf)

Supplemental Material:
None available

Document History:
06/03/16: ITL Bulletin (Final)

Topics

Technologies

cloud & virtualization