Transparent security for cloud
Flavio Lombardi, Roberto Di Pietro · 2010
Large distributed systems such as clouds are increasingly be-coming targets of attacks. Virtualization can be leveraged to increase the security of such systems by protecting the integrity of guest components. This paper discusses the in-tegrity protection problem in the clouds and sketches a novel architecture, Transparent Cloud Protection System (TCPS) for increased security of cloud resources. TCPS can be tai-lored to different cloud flavors to monitor the integrity of guests and infrastructure components while remaining trans-parent to virtual machines. Categories and Subject Descriptors D.4.6 [Software]: Operating Systems —Security and Pro-