What are the best practices for protecting your cloud-based virtual machines from malware?
Malware is a serious threat to any computer system, but especially to cloud-based virtual machines (VMs) that share resources and data with other users. Malware can compromise the security, performance, and availability of your VMs, and expose your sensitive information to hackers. To protect your cloud-based VMs from malware, you need to follow some best practices that cover the entire lifecycle of your VMs, from creation to decommissioning. In this article, we will discuss six of these best practices and how they can help you prevent, detect, and respond to malware attacks on your cloud-based VMs.