Efficient Virtualization-based Application Protection against Untrusted Operating System

• Main Authors: CHENG, Yueqiang, DING, Xuhua, DENG, Robert H.
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2015
• Subjects: application protection; isolated execution environment; address space isolation; untrusted OS; Computer Sciences; Information Security
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/sis_research/2880
• Institution: Singapore Management University

Commodity monolithic operating systems are abundant with vulnerabilities that lead to rootkit attacks. Once an operating system is subverted, the data and execution of user applications are fully exposed to the adversary, regardless whether they are designed and implemented with security considerati...