Evaluating the security risks tied to a company's virtualized environment, a network administrator relies on multiple virtual machines $($VMs$)$ for service distribution throughout the infrastructure.

The administrator's primary concern is a specific risk: an application compromised within a VM might interact with the host system and potentially propagate harmful activities.

What strategy should the network administrator employ to mitigate this risk and guarantee the individual VMs$\text{'}$ integrity and isolation in the company's virtualized environment?

answer

Enforcing user access controls

Mitigating virtual machine escape

Establishing firewall rules

Implementing network segmentation