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Elevate virtual environment security with the Hyper-V Security Guide!

The Hyper-V Security Guide is designed to provide your customers with guidance, instructions, and recommendations to help them further elevate the security of virtualized Windows Server® environments and address their business-critical needs.

Here’s your chance to help your customers efficiently manage the security of their virtualized environments. Get all the details about the guide by visiting the Hyper-V Security Guide page on TechNet.

The Hyper-V Security Guide provides the following information to address security concerns about server virtualization:

• Hardening the Hyper-V role. Prescriptive guidance for hardening the Hyper-V role, including several best practices for installing and configuring Hyper-V with a focus on security. These best practices include measures for reducing the attack surface of Hyper-V as well as recommendations for properly configuring secure virtual networks and storage devices.
• Delegating virtual machine management. Prescriptive guidance to help IT professionals safely and securely delegate administrative access to virtual machine resources using tools such as System Center Virtual Machine Manager.
• Protecting virtual machines. Prescriptive guidance for securing virtual machine resources, including best practices and detailed steps for protecting virtual machines by using a combination of file system permissions, encryption, and auditing.

This Solution Accelerator provides the following important benefits:

• Secure deployment. The recommendations in this guide will help securely deploy applications on the Microsoft virtualization platform with confidence.
• Comprehensive. This guide was written to address key security concerns around server virtualization.
• Thoroughly tested. All security recommendations have been fully tested in Microsoft labs.
• Free. The Hyper-V Security Guide is free on the Microsoft Download Center.

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