Title :
Towards Malware Inspired Cloud Self-Protection
Author :
Benkhelifa, Elhadj ; Welsh, Thomas
Author_Institution :
Fac. of Comput., Eng. & Sci., Staffordshire Univ., Stafford, UK
Abstract :
With Cloud adoption becoming more widespread, the need to ensure the security of its environments becomes greater. It has previously been shown how such environments may enable a form of Cloud-aware malware which the current state-of-the art in defence does not take into account and would struggle to defend against. Therefore the contribution of this paper is in the proposal of using a similar architecture, based on complex malware to defend and protect a network due to its ability to exist in high levels of privilege and survive removal.
Keywords :
cloud computing; invasive software; software reliability; cloud adoption; cloud-aware malware; complex malware; malware inspired cloud self-protection; Cloud computing; Computer architecture; Conferences; Malware; Virtualization; Cloud; Malware; Self-protection;
Conference_Titel :
Cloud and Autonomic Computing (ICCAC), 2014 International Conference on
Conference_Location :
London
DOI :
10.1109/ICCAC.2014.21