Virtualization technologies have been a boon to enterprise IT, increasing utilization and reducing operating costs. At the same time, these technologies have introduced new management and reporting challenges. SignaCert's ETS can harvest virtual machine images and their contents, creating software measurements for both the image and the runtime environment the image represents. These measurements can be used at each point of the virtual machine's lifecycle, creating a clear audit trail when asserting regulatory and IT policy compliance.

• Verify VM Instances: Prove that a specific VM instance is configured correctly by capturing signatures for the VM instance once it has been created and verifying against these when deploying the VM instance.
  
  
• Verify VM Instances platform: Verify an instance of a VM by verifying all the files contained in the VM - very similar to Gold Image verification. This will show if a VM instance has changed from the originally defined image at a fine-grained level.
  
  
• Create an audit trail: Prove that the use of an authorized images and optionally what was executed within the image of the virtual machine.
  

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