Secure virtualization for cloud computing（云计算安全的虚拟化）.pdf

Journal of Network and Computer Applications ] (]]]]) ]]]–]]] Contents lists available at ScienceDirect Journal of Network and Computer Applications journal homepage: /locate/jnca Secure virtualization for cloud computing Flavio Lombardi a, Roberto Di Pietro b,c, a Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, DCSPI-Sistemi Informativi, Piazzale Aldo Moro 7, 00187 Roma, Italy b Universita di Roma Tre, Dipartimento di Matematica, L.go S. Leonardo Murialdo, 1 00149 Roma, Italy c UNESCO Chair in Data Privacy, Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Tarragona, Spain a r t i c l e i n f o a b s t r a c t Article history: Cloud computing adoption and diffusion are threatened by unresolved security issues that affect both Received 29 November 2009 the cloud provider and the cloud user. In this paper, we show how virtualization can increase the Received in revised form security of cloud computing, by protecting both the integrity of guest virtual machines and the cloud 23 April 2010 infrastructure components. In particular, we propose a novel architecture, Advanced Cloud Protection Accepted 7 June 2010 System (ACPS), aimed at guaranteeing increased security to cloud resources. ACPS can be deployed on several cloud solutions and can effectively monitor the integrity of guest and infrastructure components Keywords: while remaining fully transparent to virtual machines and to cloud users. ACPS can locally react to Securit