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Why is security for VMs more important than security for physical machines?

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VMs may perform differently than physical networking devices.


It starts a minimal operating system for a remote user to access.


There is a limited amount of work that can be done on one host.


One bad configuration could be replicated across your network.

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"One bad configuration could be replicated across your network."

Explanation: VMs are easy to clone and deploy from templates or images, so a misconfigured or vulnerable VM can be copied many times and spread the same risk widely. Shared hypervisors and resource pooling also let a single compromise affect multiple VMs.

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