What deliverables will I receive from the assessment?

You will receive a detailed findings report, prioritized remediation roadmap, hardening checklist, and an executive summary for compliance evidence.

Virtualization Risk Assessment - Information Security Consulting Company

Q: What does a Virtualization Risk Assessment cover?

It covers hypervisor security, VM image integrity, network segmentation, container runtime checks, orchestration hardening, and access control reviews.

Q: How often should virtualization environments be assessed?

Assessments should be done annually and after major platform or configuration changes, with quarterly reviews for high-risk environments.

Virtualization Risk Assessment

Proactively Assess your Virtual Switches

CREST Approved Virtualization Risk Assessment

Virtualization Risk Assessment Services is an evaluation process that helps you identify and mitigate the risk to your virtual infrastructure. The assessment includes reviewing critical components which include people, process, and technology of which is a part of the virtual infrastructure.

As a CREST Approved organization, VISTA InfoSec ensures that our Virtualization Risk Assessment services adhere to the highest industry standards, offering reliable and thorough evaluations to safeguard your virtual environment.

The process helps identify vulnerabilities and gaps in architecture or configurations using industry best practices, and implement remediation to close these gaps. The assessment process involves the evaluation of policies, procedures, and infrastructure including physical systems and network devices. The reports and findings from this assessment will include a detailed list of security vulnerabilities and gaps in the system.

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Our Approach to Virtualization Risk Assessment

Security Architecture Review

Our team will thoroughly evaluate the virtual infrastructure and security practices in the architecture and design, including networks, hosts virtual machines, and virtual infrastructure management design.

Virtual Infrastructure Security Testing

We will assess the security of the logical network, virtual server storage network, virtual infrastructure management network, and identify infrastructure attack surface and the associated risk.

Virtual Host Security Configuration Review

We assess and review configurations of sampled virtual machines and the host using industry best practices to identify insecure configurations associated with the deployed product.

Policy & Procedure Gap Analysis

Our team will assess the gap in current policies and procedures for virtual infrastructure according to the ISO 27001/27002 security standard.

Interviews

We will interview your virtualization administrators to assess their knowledge base in maintaining a secure virtualization infrastructure.

Business Continuity

Our team will also assess your ability to recover from a cyber-attack or downtime of your core virtualization infrastructure.

Why work with VISTA InfoSec?

Vendor Neutral Solution- We provide a vendor-neutral assessment of your public/private/hybrid cloud options.
Strictly No Outsourcing- We value your trust in us so we do not outsource your critical assignments to another third party.
Industry Expertise- We will share industry-specific insight and provide relevant recommendations for achieving your goals of compliance.
Years of Experience- Your organization will benefit from our decade long years of Industry experience and knowledge.
Detailed Assessment reports- We will provide you with a comprehensive virtual infrastructure security assessment report that details the list of security vulnerabilities.
Remediation- Our team will provide you with strategic, practical, and easy to understand recommendations to improve your virtual infrastructure security stance.
Industry Best Practice- We adopt best practices and advanced tools to ensure that your application is secure against potential attacks and threats

Frequently Asked Questions on Virtualization Risk Assessment

What is a Virtualization Risk Assessment?

A Virtualization Risk Assessment evaluates security risks across hypervisors, virtual machines, container platforms, and orchestration layers to identify misconfigurations, isolation failures, and attack surfaces

Who should get a Virtualization Risk Assessment?

Organizations using virtualized or containerised infrastructure—cloud providers, enterprises, fintechs, and SaaS companies—should assess virtualization risks to protect workloads and maintain compliance.

What does a Virtualization Risk Assessment cover?

Typical coverage includes hypervisor security, VM image integrity, inter-VM isolation, network segmentation, container runtime checks, orchestration hardening, and access/control plane reviews.

How often should virtualization environments be assessed?

Assessments should be done at least annually and after major platform changes or cloud migrations; high-risk environments may require quarterly reviews or continuous monitoring

How does a Virtualization Risk Assessment benefit you?

You’ll receive a technical findings report, prioritized remediation roadmap, configuration-hardening checklist, and an executive summary to support risk reduction and compliance evidence.