Within an agent server, the model introduces a trusted third party entity called Secure Service Station(SSS). The SSS is a non\|hardware component and is intended to prevent most attacks performed by malicious hosts, ...Within an agent server, the model introduces a trusted third party entity called Secure Service Station(SSS). The SSS is a non\|hardware component and is intended to prevent most attacks performed by malicious hosts, by providing mechanisms that ensure attack detection and provide integrity to mobile agents. This noble technique involves encapsulating partial results obtained on each intermediate host and binding these results together using a hash function, thus forming a strong bonded chain that cannot be compromised. An analytical model to explore the system performance was also developed.展开更多
Recently,virtualization technologies have been widely used in industry.In order to monitor the security of target systems in virtualization environments,conventional methods usually put the security monitoring mechani...Recently,virtualization technologies have been widely used in industry.In order to monitor the security of target systems in virtualization environments,conventional methods usually put the security monitoring mechanism into the normal functionality of the target systems.However,these methods are either prone to be tempered by attackers or introduce considerable performance overhead for target systems.To address these problems,in this paper,we present a concurrent security monitoring method which decouples traditional serial mechanisms,including security event collector and analyzer,into two concurrent components.On one hand,we utilize the SIM framework to deploy the event collector into the target virtual machine.On the other hand,we combine the virtualization technology and multi-core technology to put the event analyzer into a trusted execution environment.To address the synchronization problem between these two concurrent components,we make use of Lamport's ring buffer algorithm.Based on the Xen hypervisor,we have implemented a prototype system named COMO.The experimental results show that COMO can monitor the security of the target virtual machine concurrently within a little performance overhead.展开更多
文摘Within an agent server, the model introduces a trusted third party entity called Secure Service Station(SSS). The SSS is a non\|hardware component and is intended to prevent most attacks performed by malicious hosts, by providing mechanisms that ensure attack detection and provide integrity to mobile agents. This noble technique involves encapsulating partial results obtained on each intermediate host and binding these results together using a hash function, thus forming a strong bonded chain that cannot be compromised. An analytical model to explore the system performance was also developed.
基金supported in part by National Natural Science Foundation of China(NSFC)under Grant No.61100228 and 61202479the National High-tech R&D Program of China under Grant No.2012AA013101+1 种基金the Strategic Priority Research Program of the Chinese Academy of Sciences under Grant No.XDA06030601 and XDA06010701Open Found of Key Laboratory of IOT Application Technology of Universities in Yunnan Province Grant No.2015IOT03
文摘Recently,virtualization technologies have been widely used in industry.In order to monitor the security of target systems in virtualization environments,conventional methods usually put the security monitoring mechanism into the normal functionality of the target systems.However,these methods are either prone to be tempered by attackers or introduce considerable performance overhead for target systems.To address these problems,in this paper,we present a concurrent security monitoring method which decouples traditional serial mechanisms,including security event collector and analyzer,into two concurrent components.On one hand,we utilize the SIM framework to deploy the event collector into the target virtual machine.On the other hand,we combine the virtualization technology and multi-core technology to put the event analyzer into a trusted execution environment.To address the synchronization problem between these two concurrent components,we make use of Lamport's ring buffer algorithm.Based on the Xen hypervisor,we have implemented a prototype system named COMO.The experimental results show that COMO can monitor the security of the target virtual machine concurrently within a little performance overhead.
