Computer Security: Importance of VMware Virtual Machine for Testing and Security Evaluation

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Table of Contents
Introduction..........................................................................................................................2
Discussion............................................................................................................................3
Investigation of security of the system............................................................................3
Run Level Command.......................................................................................................4
SQL injection...................................................................................................................6
One port testing................................................................................................................7
Proposal for securing system...........................................................................................7
Conclusion.........................................................................................................................10
References..........................................................................................................................12

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Introduction
WidgetsInc has made a deal with Benny Vandergast Incorporation to easily develop new
web-based store. Benny Vandergast has come up with a VMware machine which can be used for
easily testing. VMware is known to be an industry leading software firm. It takes into
consideration customer safety and security in much serious (Wei et al. 2017). VMware come up
with certain programs and practices which helps in identification of various security issues in
their products. It also focuses on mitigating various kinds of software security risk to customers.
The programs are changing on regular basis depending on own experience and learning from
various industry collaboration and observation. The virtual machine is a well-known software or
OS (operating system) which does not only come up with the ability to perform a task on running
machine and separate systems (Davie et al. 2017). With the passage of time, the virtual machine
is becoming more common due to growth in virtualization technology. The virtual machine is
generally created to perform a large number of a task other than which are performed in the host
environment. Virtual machines are mainly implemented by different methods of simulation and
hardware virtualization techniques. The virtual machine is mainly differentiated into two
categories that are system virtual machines and process virtual machine.
In the coming pages of the report, an idea has been provided the importance of VMware
virtual machine for testing. After that security evaluation of the security of the system has been
discussed in details. A manual security of the website on the virtual portal has been provided.
The total evaluation of the website is done without any kind of password or username. A proper
description has been provided regarding the various tools and techniques for evaluation of the
system.

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Discussion
Investigation of security of the system
Virtual machines are considered to be well-known technology in the industry of
information technology. They are used in the domain of cloud computing for its benefits like
effective, scalability (Apecechea et al. 2014). They are largely used in security for detection of
any kind of malware like honeypots. With the growth of the mobile device market, VM is being
widely used as an emulator for detection of malware in a mobile device. The mobile device can
easily perform a similar function to a computer system. Mobile device comes up with the same
kind of vulnerabilities and issues which are encountered by a computer system. Smartphones are
limited by resources like a battery, lack of storage and processing. The integration of mobile
devices and cloud computing have resulted in lack of resources which are available to various
mobile devices and cloud technology (Hogan and Epping, 2016). A large number of resources
should be there for looking into the security mobile which is required for detection of malware
and monitoring of security. A malware detection security system making use of VM is of critical
vulnerability. In the beginning, malware will try to analyze the environment in which it will run.
By the help of VM detectors, malware creators can easily write programs which will help in
detection a VM environment. It would a serious consequence on the use of various mobile
devices used for any kind of application which helps in the detection of malware (Solaimani et
al. 2014). With the development of malware detection like VM environment can easily reduce
the value of risk of the behavior of harmful operation like botnet attacks which helps in detection
of VM environment. It can have serious consequence on the various application on VM which