Title :
Building Reliable and Secure Virtual Machines Using Architectural Invariants
Author :
Cuong Pham ; Estrada, Zachary J. ; Phuong Cao ; Kalbarczyk, Zbigniew ; Iyer, Ravishankar K.
Author_Institution :
Univ. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, USA
Abstract :
HyperTap is a hypervisor-level monitoring framework for virtual machines (VMs). It uses hardware architectural invariants properties defined and enforced by a hardware platform to establish the root of trust for logging data and events. HyperTap also supports continuous, event-driven VM monitoring, which enables both capturing the system state and responding rapidly to actions of interest.
Keywords :
security of data; virtual machines; HyperTap; architectural invariants; continuous VM monitoring; data logging; event-driven VM monitoring; hardware architectural invariants properties; hypervisor-level monitoring framework; reliable virtual machines; secure virtual machines; Computer architecture; Computer security; Linux; Monitoring; Virtual machine monitors; Virtual machining; HyperTap; hang detection; hangs; hardware architectural invariants; hardware-assisted virtualization; privilege escalation; reliability; rootkits; security; virtual machines; virtual-machine introspection;
Journal_Title :
Security & Privacy, IEEE
DOI :
10.1109/MSP.2014.87
