Remote Hacking via KVM

Summary

The KVM switch has come a long way from the “dumb” manual switching days and offers tremendous power, flexibility and productivity gains. 

However due to the immense power now in the switch it is important that a security strategy is thought through to protect your investment in your KVM and the servers managed by the KVM switch.

A careful consideration on your corporate policy on both your ‘In Band and ‘Out of Band ‘ access strategies is essential to allow the correct provision of the most secure and productive server management tools.

The screenshots shown are from Raritan’s latest KVM switch the Dominion KX II model. For more information about this connect to: www.raritan.co.uk 

Ben Chai is the content director for ITProPortal.com and a director for www.incomingthought.com who specialise in security white papers and security education.