The Chief Technology Officer (CTO) has decided that servers in the company datacenter should be virtualized to conserve physical space. The risk assurance officer is concerned that the project team in charge of virtualizing servers plans to co-mingle many guest operating systems with different security requirements to speed up the rollout and reduce the number of host operating systems or hypervisors required. Which of the following BEST describes the risk assurance officer’s concerns?

The Chief Technology Officer (CTO) has decided that servers in the company datacenter should be virtualized to conserve physical space. The risk assurance officer is concerned that the project team in charge of virtualizing servers plans to co-mingle many guest operating systems with different security requirements to speed up the rollout and reduce the number of host operating systems or hypervisors required. Which of the following BEST describes the risk assurance officer’s concerns?
A . Co-mingling guest operating system with different security requirements allows guest OS privilege elevation to occur within the guest OS via shared memory allocation with the host O
C . Co-mingling of guest operating systems with different security requirements increases the risk of data loss if the hypervisor fails.
D . A weakly protected guest OS combined with a host OS exploit increases the chance of a successful VME scape attack being executed, compromising the hypervisor and other guest O
F . A weakly protected host OS will allow the hypervisor to become corrupted resulting in data throughput performance issues.

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Answer: C