Question

During an audit of a data center that consolidated dozens of production servers onto a single virtualized platform, the IS auditor is assessing the greatest security risk introduced by this architecture. Which of the following should be the auditor's PRIMARY concern?

Accepted Answer

Compromise of the hypervisor could expose all guest virtual machines running on that host

Answer

Virtual machines consume more disk storage than equivalent physical servers

Answer

Licensing costs for the virtualization software may exceed the original budget

Answer

Administrators require additional training to manage the virtual environment