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Assessment Title
Rule Text
Nonpersistent disk mode is set for virtual machines.
Description
Discussion Text
The security issue with nonpersistent disk mode is that attackers may undo or remove any traces that they were ever on the machine with a simple shutdown or reboot. Once the virtual machine has been shutdown, the vulnerability used to access the virtual machine will still be present, and the attacker may access the virtual machine in the future at a point in time of their choice. The danger is that administrators may never know if they have been attacked or hacked. To safeguard against this, nonpersistent disk mode will be only used for test and development virtual machines. Production virtual machines will be set to persistent disk mode only.
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