A security model for a virtualized information environment

• Main Author: Tolnai, Annette
• Published: 2012
• Subjects: Virtual computer systems - Security measures; Computer security
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10210/5821

D.Phil. === Virtualization is a new infrastructure platform whose trend is sweeping through IT like a blaze. Improving the IT industry by higher utilization from hardware, better responsiveness to changing business conditions and lower cost operations is a must have in the new generation of virtualization solutions. Virtualization is not just one more entry in the long line of “revolutionary” products that have hit the technology marketplace. Many parts of the technology ecosystem will be affected as the paradigm shifts from the old one-to-one correspondence between software and hardware to the new approach of software operating on any hardware that happens to be most suitable to use at the time. This brings along with it security concerns, which need to be addressed. Security evolving in and around the virtualized system will become more pertinent the more virtualization is employed into everyday IT technology and use. In this thesis, a security model for virtualization will be developed and presented. This model will cover the different facets needed to address virtualization security.