A Noble Approach Toward Security Implementation in Cloud Virtualization Framework

Abstract

Virtual machine infrastructure has been one of the most powerful technologies over the years. In the mid of its growing popularity in the market, there lies a fear in using this technology. Various survey papers discussed the security issues concerning this technology, for instance, the attack at the Virtualization level, man-in-the-middle attacks, denial of service (DoS). In our paper, we discussed various security issues which can occur when we use an application in a virtualized environment. Those issues can be related to the physical machine, in which the virtualized environment is being set up. Attackers can also gain access to the hypervisor which acts as an interface between the virtual machines and the host machine. Security threats can also come up when we login into an application in a virtual machine. Those issues can be related to the login credentials, the data which is to be transferred to the destination system and last but by no means the least, the vulnerabilities of the virtual machines, through which an attacker can gain access to the hypervisor, which is the heart of the virtualized environment. Hence, it is imperative that we do some survey on how we can implement the measures by which we can minimize these security threats and counter the same.