• DocumentCode
    26991
  • Title

    Introspections on the Semantic Gap

  • Author

    Jain, Bhushan ; Baig, Mirza Basim ; Dongli Zhang ; Porter, Donald E. ; Sion, Radu

  • Volume
    13
  • Issue
    2
  • fYear
    2015
  • fDate
    Mar.-Apr. 2015
  • Firstpage
    48
  • Lastpage
    55
  • Abstract
    An essential goal of virtual machine introspection is security policy enforcement in the presence of an untrustworthy OS. One obstacle to this goal is the difficulty in accurately extracting semantic meaning from the hypervisor´s hardware-level view of a guest OS.
  • Keywords
    security of data; virtual machines; OS; security policy enforcement; virtual machine introspection; Computer security; Data structures; Kernel; Monitoring; Semantics; Trust management; Virtual machine monitors; Virtual machines; VM introspection; VMI; security; semantic gap; trust;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Journal_Title
    Security & Privacy, IEEE
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • ISSN
    1540-7993
  • Type

    jour

  • DOI
    10.1109/MSP.2015.35
  • Filename
    7085955