Terra: a virtual machine-based platform for trusted computing
SOSP '03 Proceedings of the nineteenth ACM symposium on Operating systems principles
SubVirt: Implementing malware with virtual machines
SP '06 Proceedings of the 2006 IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy
Temporal search: detecting hidden malware timebombs with virtual machines
Proceedings of the 12th international conference on Architectural support for programming languages and operating systems
How low can you go?: recommendations for hardware-supported minimal TCB code execution
Proceedings of the 13th international conference on Architectural support for programming languages and operating systems
Flicker: an execution infrastructure for tcb minimization
Proceedings of the 3rd ACM SIGOPS/EuroSys European Conference on Computer Systems 2008
SMM rootkits: a new breed of OS independent malware
Proceedings of the 4th international conference on Security and privacy in communication netowrks
Virtualization: Issues, security threats, and solutions
ACM Computing Surveys (CSUR)
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Virtualisation is not a new technology, but has experienced a resurgence of interest among industry and academic researchers over the last decade. New products and technologies are emerging quickly, and are being deployed with little considerations to security concerns. With the enhancement of hardware support for virtualisation in modern platforms, new opportunities and applications for virtualisation emerged. Malware authors have quickly adapted and developed new types of rootkits to exploit virtualisation functionality for their own purposes. This has lead to the creation of a new generation of stealthy malware. Security of virtualisation is based on the isolation properties provided by the hypervisor. Researchers from Hewlett-Packard Systems Security Lab explore the risks and possibilities of cutting edge hardware virtualisation support, and discuss the concept of trusting a hypervisor and its enforcement mechanisms. Virtualisation offers many benefits for data centres, developers as well as consumers. In data centres, virtualisation can help to increase utilisation of previously under-utilised servers, hence reducing operational cost. For developers and on the client side it can provide an easy try out feature for complex software, such as kernel development, unfamiliar operating systems, or even new application delivery models such as virtual appliances.