Analysis of various virtual machine attacks in cloud computing

• Published in: 2018 2nd International Conference on Inventive Systems and Control (ICISC) pp. 1016 - 1019
• Main Authors: Annapoorani, S., Srinivasan, B., Mylavathi, G. A.
• Format: Conference Proceeding
• Language: English
• Published: IEEE 01-01-2018
• Subjects: Cloud computing; Computational modeling; Hypervisor; Multi tenancy; Resource management; Security; Virtual machine monitors; Virtual machining; Virtualisation components; Virtualization; VMs attacks
• DOI: 10.1109/ICISC.2018.8398955

Cloud Computing is advanced technology for resource sharing through network with less cost as compare to other technologies. Cloud infrastructure supports various models IaaS, SaaS, PaaS. Today the most important technique used in cloud computing is the concept of virtualization. By using virtualization, more than one operating system is supported with all resources on single hardware. In addition, the virtualization technology has limit security capabilities in order to secure wide area cloud environment. Sharing of one database to many tenants is known as Multi tenancy. Multi-tenancy is achieved by utilizing virtualization and allowing resource sharing where Multi-tenancy is seen differently from different service models. To secure cloud infrastructure a hypervisor based virtualization is used. This paper describes the various virtual machine security attacks and analysis the various attacks based on hypervisor security in virtualization environment.