Title :
Virtualization Security Combining Mandatory Access Control and Virtual Machine Introspection
Author :
Thu Yein Win ; Tianfield, Huaglory ; Mair, Quentin
Author_Institution :
Sch. of Eng. & Built Environ., Glasgow Caledonian Univ., Glasgow, UK
Abstract :
Virtualization has become a target for attacks in cloud computing environments. Existing approaches to protecting the virtualization environment against the attacks are limited in protection scope and are with high overheads. This paper proposes a novel virtualization security solution which aims to provide comprehensive protection of the virtualization environment.
Keywords :
authorisation; cloud computing; virtual machines; virtualisation; cloud computing environments; mandatory access control; virtual machine introspection; virtualization environment protection; virtualization security solution; Access control; Linux; Monitoring; Virtual machine monitors; Virtual machining; Virtualization; Access Control; Cloud Computing; Security; Systems Security; Virtual Machine Introspection; Virtual Machines; Virtualization; Virtualization Security;
Conference_Titel :
Utility and Cloud Computing (UCC), 2014 IEEE/ACM 7th International Conference on
Conference_Location :
London
DOI :
10.1109/UCC.2014.165