Given the current security issues and breaches that some companies are experiencing, are there examples of applications that companies would not want to consolidate onto the same server?
We recommend three rules of thumb for companies concerned about security issues: minimize, standardize and harden. Minimizing server sprawl is an immediate way to reduce complexity and identify weaknesses that could potentially become security risks. Next, standardizing systems makes it significantly easier for IT teams to detect even the slightest change in their environment, including intrusion. Lastly, hardening is an assessment process to remove vulnerabilities particularly at the operating system level. Sun has a number of new technologies built into our own operating system, Solaris, that makes it extremely difficult to fall prey to security threats.
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