Toward a secure virtual traffic in a cloud environement

This last few years experienced a new paradigm called Cloud Computing (CC), coming as an extension of Grid Computing and Distributed Computing. This raises many questions about the appropriate infrastructure, processes, and strategy for enacting detection and response to intrusion in a Cloud environment. This article discusses the security and the visibility issues of inter-VM traffic and solutions for it within a Cloud environment context, by proposing an approach relying on distributed intrusion detection technique and packet inspection.