DEALING WITH ROGUE VIRTUAL MACHINES IN A CLOUD SERVICES ENVIRONMENT

B. Colbert, L. M. Batten

2011

Abstract

In current cloud services hosting solutions, various mechanisms have been developed to minimize the possibility of hosting staff from breaching security. However, while functions such as replicating and moving machines are legitimate actions in clouds, we show that there are risks in administrators being able to perform them. We describe three threat scenarios related to hosting staff on the cloud architecture and indicate how an appropriate accountability architecture can mitigate these risks in the sense that the attacks can be detected and the perpetrators identified. We identify requirements and future research and development needed to protect cloud service environments from these attacks.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Colbert B. and M. Batten L. (2011). DEALING WITH ROGUE VIRTUAL MACHINES IN A CLOUD SERVICES ENVIRONMENT . In Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Cloud Computing and Services Science - Volume 1: CLOSER, ISBN 978-989-8425-52-2, pages 43-48. DOI: 10.5220/0003381700430048

in Bibtex Style

@conference{closer11,
author={B. Colbert and L. M. Batten},
title={DEALING WITH ROGUE VIRTUAL MACHINES IN A CLOUD SERVICES ENVIRONMENT},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Cloud Computing and Services Science - Volume 1: CLOSER,},
year={2011},
pages={43-48},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0003381700430048},
isbn={978-989-8425-52-2},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Cloud Computing and Services Science - Volume 1: CLOSER,
TI - DEALING WITH ROGUE VIRTUAL MACHINES IN A CLOUD SERVICES ENVIRONMENT
SN - 978-989-8425-52-2
AU - Colbert B.
AU - M. Batten L.
PY - 2011
SP - 43
EP - 48
DO - 10.5220/0003381700430048