Virtualization is a technology that has greatly benefited businesses around the globe. The technology has a significant impact on the modern IT landscape and today plays a key role in the development and delivery of cloud computing solutions. However, the adoption of this advanced technology has major security implications on businesses today. The adoption of Virtualization has opened doors to a broad range of challenges for businesses in the industry. Especially, for organizations that are PCI regulated and required to comply with PCI DSS Standards, the challenges in this area only seem to grow.

For most businesses, security is clearly the top priority. More so, for PCI-regulated businesses, their security teams are expected to tackle sophisticated cyber-attacks and deal with the rapidly evolving IT infrastructure. So, clearly, with the increasing adoption of virtualization the fundamental implications of security and sustaining compliance with PCI DSS is a major concern. Covering top risks of virtualization and mitigation strategies, the article explains various PCI Compliance challenges and ways to tackle them.