Detecting co-residency with active traffic analysis techniques
Adam Bates, Benjamin Mood, Joe Pletcher, Hannah Pruse, Masoud Valafar, Kevin R. B. Butler · 2012
Virtualization is the cornerstone of the developing third party compute industry, allowing cloud providers to instantiate multiple virtual machines (VMs) on a single set of physical resources. Customers utilize cloud resources alongside unknown and untrusted parties, creating the co-resident threat -- unless perfect isolation is provided by the virtual hypervisor, there exists the possibility for unauthorized access to sensitive customer information through the exploitation of covert side channels.