Secure Virtualization for Cloud Environment Using Guest OS and VMM-based Technology

Abstract

Cloud computing, the utility base computing, is going to become the mainstream of IT future. Governments and enterprises are realizing that by immigrating into the cloud they can significantly enhance their current infrastructure or application services with minimum cost and maximum elasticity. But securing cloud user digital assets and addressing privacy concerns of cloud costumers has become serious challenge. Providing security in cloud always has to consider performance. Employing high secure methods with massive complexity will increase overall service cost, to address this problem in this paper a two- tier security architecture is proposed. This architecture use multiple work mode for security components in guest level to decrease security process over-head and a security supervisory in hypervisor layer to make sure avoiding from false security alarms