An architecture providing virtualization-based protection mechanisms against insider attacks

  • Authors:
  • Frederic Stumpf;Patrick Röder;Claudia Eckert

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Computer Science, Technische Universität Darmstadt, Darmstadt, Germany;Department of Computer Science, Technische Universität Darmstadt, Darmstadt, Germany;Department of Computer Science, Technische Universität Darmstadt, Darmstadt, Germany

  • Venue:
  • WISA'07 Proceedings of the 8th international conference on Information security applications
  • Year:
  • 2007

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Abstract

Insider attacks are very powerful and are relevant in many scenarios, such as grid computing, corporate computing on home computers and electronic commerce of digital content. We present an example scenario to illustrate these attacks and perform a threat analysis to extract requirements for preventing insider attacks. We believe that these requirements are also representative of other scenarios. We develop a four layered protection architecture by using virtualization techniques based on these requirements. Therefore, the proposed architecture prevents insider attacks in scenarios with similar requirements as well.