Here are five minutes of our best moments from CISO Series Video Chat: “Hacking Virtualization: An hour of critical thinking about how virtualization can simplify your security architecture.”
Our guests for this discussion were:
- Sandy Wenzel (@malwaremama), cybersecurity transformation engineer, VMware
- Edward Haletky (@texiwill), svp GIS platform security architect at a financial institution.
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Best Bad Ideas

Congrats to Christopher Lee, senior lead engineer, Booz Allen Hamilton for winning this week’s Best Bad Idea.
Other honorable mentions go to :
“Only run one host per virtual machine per cloud provider.” – Ryan Cummings, CISO, Meru Health
“Run all VMs on containers. And the containers in VMs.” – DJ Sampath, Co-founder & CEO, Armorblox
10 percent better
“Make sure that no unused VM’s are in your environment.” – Rolland Mueller, self-employed
“Document the security configuration for your VMs because it is easy to recover the image and overlook the hardening config.” – Duane Gran, director, information systems and security, Blue Ridge ESOP Associates
“Have the CEO listen to your CISO at least 10 percent of the time.” – Kim Kennedy, editor, evangelist, H4UNT3D Hacker






