When Virtual Is Harder than Real: Security Challenges in Virtual Machine Based Computing Environments

By Tal Garfinkel, Mendel Rosenblum. USENIX Workshop on Hot Topics in Operating Systems, 2005

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Managing security of virtual machine images in a cloud environment (2009, background): “Anecdotal evidence shows that, if dormant VM images are not managed (e.g., scanned for worms), a virtual environment may never converge to a steady state, because worm-carrying VM images can sporadically run, infect other machines, and disappear before they can be detected [ 11 ].”
Effective and Efficient Malware Detection at the End Host (2009, unknown): “tectors [9, 12, 25] that use sophisticated static analysis”
CloudVisor: retrofitting protection of virtual machines in multi-tenant cloud with nested virtualization (2011, background): “Virtualization might have both positive [16] and negative [22] impacts on the security and trustworthiness of the cloud.”
A security analysis of Amazon's Elastic Compute Cloud service (2012, methodology): “We did not use any sensitive data extracted from the AMI, or interact with any other server during this test.”
Dynamic Scheduling of Virtual Machines Running HPC Workloads in Scientific Grids (2007, background): “Garfunkel and Rosenblum discussed security challenges in virtualized environments [12].”
An analysis of security issues for cloud computing (2013, background): “In order to provide rollbacks, we need to make a “copy” (snapshot) of the virtual machine, which can result in the propagation of configuration errors and other vulnerabilities [12,44].”