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Question

The NIST Information Security and Privacy Advisory Board (ISPAB) paper “Perspectives on Cloud Computing and Standards” identifies potential advantages and disadvantages of virtualization. Which of the following disadvantages does it include? Each correct answer represents a complete solution. Choose all that apply.

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Explanation

Virtualization can increase security risk through shared resources, creates malicious-virtualization risk, can make remote attestation unreliable, and introduces threats requiring protection against VM escape, VM detection, and VM-to-VM interference. NIST identifies these as potential security disadvantages of virtualization.

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