Using virtualization to protect application address space inside untrusted environment

  • Authors:
  • D. V. Silakov

  • Affiliations:
  • Institute for System Programming of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia 109004

  • Venue:
  • Programming and Computing Software
  • Year:
  • 2012

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Abstract

The paper describes a virtualization-based approach to protecting context of trusted processes running inside potentially compromised environment. Suggested protection system is based on a hypervisor that monitors all events inside operating system and prevents unauthorized access to process resources. The approach does not require modification of OS or applications; the only requirement for hardware is support for virtualization.