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VMware vSphere 8.0 STIG Readiness Guide

Log Date: 11-29-2024

VMware vSphere 8 STIG Readiness Guide, Version 1, Release 1 - Custom Compliance Benchmark

(contains the vCenter Server, ESXi and Virtual Machine STIG Readiness Guide violation alert content listed below)

VMware vSphere 8 ESXi STIG Readiness Guide, Version 1, Release 1 - Violation Alert Content

VMware vSphere 8 vCenter Application STIG Readiness Guide, Version 1, Release 1 - Violation Alert Content

VMware vSphere 8 Virtual Machine STIG Readiness Guide, Version 1, Release 1 - Violation Alert Content

VMware vSphere Security Configuration Guide 8

VMware vSphere Security Configuration Guide 8, Version 800-20221031-01 - Custom Compliance Benchmark (contains the vCenter Server, ESXi and Virtual Machine Security Configuration Guide violation alert content listed below) VMware vSphere Security Configuration Guide 8, Version 800-20221031-01 - ESXi Host Controls - Violation Alert Content VMware vSphere Security Configuration Guide 8, Version 800-20221031-01 - vCenter Server Controls - Violation Alert Content VMware vSphere Security Configuration Guide 8, Version 800-20221031-01 - Virtual Machine Controls - Violation Alert Content

Aria Operations Compliance for vSphere 8 STIG Readiness Guide

Aria Operations helps provided your capabilities efficiently with cutting-edge technology solutions.

Aria Operations Collection Status to monitor, visualize, and troubleshoot the status of existing collectors. This view ensures the full operation of your Aria Operations Environment.

Aria Operations Sustainability helps organizations measure and improve the carbon footprint of your IT infrastructure. Provide visibility into sustainability optimization and emissions reduction, including carbon transparency, carbon efficiency, and the environmental impact of idle VMs.

Aria Operations - If you enable & install management packs for compliance, this provides view for vSphere Security Configuration Guides to see What Is & What Is Not Compliance. Most SOC departments would love to see this from a Dashboard overview.

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Azure VMware Solution (AVS) is a first-party Microsoft Azure service developed in conjunction with VMware that provides a familiar vSphere-based, single-tenant private cloud on Azure that is like the one used by VMware. The VMware technology stack consists of the following components: vSphere, NSX-T, vSAN, and HCX. AVS is installed on a dedicated infrastructure in Azure data centers and runs natively on that infrastructure. In comparison to existing on-premises VMware infrastructures, AVS provides a consistent and well-known user experience. Customers may deploy an AVS environment in a matter of hours and migrate Virtual Machine (VM) resources in a matter of minutes. Microsoft supplies all the networking, storage, management, and support services that are required.

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The Zero Trust reference architecture is built on five key pillars: identities, devices, networks, applications, and data. Each of these pillars plays a critical role in the overall security posture of an organization.

In the realm of identities, Zero Trust emphasizes robust identity verification. This means that every user must prove who they are before accessing resources. This is often achieved through multi-factor authentication (MFA), which requires users to provide more than one authentication method.

Devices are also a crucial part of the Zero Trust architecture. With the rise in remote work and Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) policies, the number of devices accessing corporate networks has increased. Under Zero Trust, each device owned by the organization or the employee is treated as a potential risk. As such, every device must be secured and continuously monitored for threats.

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Ransomware, data leaks, phishing, denial of service… these are some of the terms that everyone, even those who aren’t in the IT industry, will have repeatedly heard in the last few years. Everyone has received an email from a Nigerian prince or some long-lost rich, relative from Africa at least once. These are basic examples of cyberattacks called phishing attacks, which still have an acceptable success rate. If we were to talk about more tailored phishing attacks (common ones being a request to change your password or a notification that your account will be deleted if you don’t click on a link), those have an even better success rate – why is that so? Because bad actors are smart.

The first aspect to consider is that they will use many techniques to make their email seem as legitimate as possible, and the second, which is not connected to IT, is the psychological part. The psychological part manifests itself in a few different ways. It can be someone pretending to be your boss (using spoofing methods), an email containing a sense of urgency, or an email sent at the end of working hours when employee concentration is at its lowest.

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VMware vSphere 8.0 STIG Readiness Guide

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