Defending and Investigating Hypervisors

Bare metal hypervisors hosting virtual machines are used to run IT infrastructure by most of the organizations. Threat actors continue to target these hypervisors, sometimes to perform at scale encryption and other times to maintain covert persistence. Based on experience gained from investigating a variety of such attacks targeting organizations, this talk will detail the attack surface of some of the popular hypervisors like VMWare ESXi, how threat actors target them, how defenders can secure them and how post-incident investigations …

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