Title :
Introspections on the Semantic Gap
Author :
Jain, Bhushan ; Baig, Mirza Basim ; Dongli Zhang ; Porter, Donald E. ; Sion, Radu
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;
Journal_Title :
Security & Privacy, IEEE
DOI :
10.1109/MSP.2015.35
