The vSphere Security Hardening Guide

The Security Hardening Guides provided by VMware gives a prescriptive guidance for end users on how to securely deploy and operate VMware products. Typically, vSphere guides are provided in a spreadsheet format. The document also includes script examples in various formats used for automating the security implementation. To get the latest version of the document, visit the website and download the version applicable to you from:

https://www.vmware.com/security/hardening-guides.

In this book, we will cover and discuss the vSphere 6.0 Hardening Guide. There is a total of 75 points regarding security best practices that should be checked and implemented. In Chapter 12, Best Practices and Sample Scripts we will provide you with a script that will cover all these points, and automate the environment to check for the points; if they are not set, the script will set them for you.

Note that many of the points can be set and checked using Update Manager and host...