Bob,

Anyone that both terms themselves a ’security expert’ and suggests virtualization as a panacea for solving system security issues has definitely oversold their skillset. Of the security professionals I know, each and everyone of them understand that virtualization _may_ abstract some problems, but you still have a system running that someone can break into, and is likely trying to break into right now. (Okay, I’m a little more paranoid than most people, I admit it.)

However, in this particular case, virtualization wasn’t even the suggested solution to the security problem.

But this does remind me of two things I was thinking of blathering about, a Reasonable Paranoia, and why security people like virtualization (and it’s not because it increases security).

There is also no evidence for your explanation of the security of OS X — The use of Intel Macs, and Macs overall, has increased substantially over the past few years, and yet there are still no successful OS-level exploits in the wild.

But to hear of a sysadmin that can actually take that position…methinks he’d be better off in another line of work. Certainly his employer would!