Building reliable and secure virtual machines using architectural invariants

Cuong Pham; Zachary J. Estrada; Phuong Cao; Zbigniew Kalbarczyk; Ravishankar K. Iyer

doi:10.1109/MSP.2014.87

Building reliable and secure virtual machines using architectural invariants

Cuong Pham, Zachary J. Estrada, Phuong Cao, Zbigniew Kalbarczyk, Ravishankar K. Iyer

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Abstract

HyperTap is a hypervisor-level monitoring framework for virtual machines (VMs). It uses hardware architectural invariants properties defined and enforced by a hardware platform to establish the root of trust for logging data and events. HyperTap also supports continuous, event-driven VM monitoring, which enables both capturing the system state and responding rapidly to actions of interest.

Original language	English (US)
Article number	6924639
Pages (from-to)	82-85
Number of pages	4
Journal	IEEE Security and Privacy
Volume	12
Issue number	5
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/MSP.2014.87
State	Published - Sep 2014

Keywords

HyperTap
hang detection
hangs
hardware architectural invariants
hardware-assisted virtualization
privilege escalation
reliability
rootkits
security
virtual machines
virtual-machine introspection

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Computer Networks and Communications
Electrical and Electronic Engineering
Law

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