An organization is seeking to improve its security posture in a virtualized environment. Which of the following actions BEST ensures the isolation of sensitive applications from other less critical applications?
Implementing a host-based firewall on the virtual machine hosting the sensitive applications
Segmenting the virtual network within the virtual machine
Deploying a virtual firewall to manage traffic between virtual machines
Creating separate virtual machines for each sensitive application
Creating separate virtual machines for sensitive applications is the best solution for ensuring that these applications are isolated from others. This provides a secure, isolated environment that can be managed and monitored independently, minimizing the risk of cross-contamination or interference from less critical applications. Host-based firewalls are more about controlling traffic to and from a VM rather than isolating applications, network segmentation within the same VM does not provide true isolation for the applications, and implementing a virtual firewall does not guarantee isolated environments for different applications as it typically focuses on network traffic management.
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