Dynamic Security Properties Monitoring Architecture for Cloud Computing
Antonio Muñoz, Antonio Maña, Javier González · IGI Global eBooks · 2012
In this chapter, the authors provide an overview of the importance of the monitoring of security properties in cloud computing scenarios. They then present an approach based on monitoring security properties in cloud systems based on a diagnosis framework that supports the specification and monitoring of properties expressed in Event Calculus (EC) as rules as the basis. The provision of diagnosis information is based on the generation of alternative explanations for the events that are involved in the violations of rules. This approach is based on Virtualization Architectures that presents several threats identified in the instrumentation of Virtualized Environments. The monitoring model presented in this chapter focuses on runtime supervision of applications, allowing the detection of problems in the operation of individual instances of applications and supporting the automated reconfiguration of these applications. This infrastructure has been recently designed as part of the PASSIVE project. To the best of the authors’ knowledge, there is not any other infrastructure providing the same features as the one presented in this chapter. For this reason, not much directly related previous work is found in the literature.