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Securing Operating Systems Through Utility Virtual Machines

<p> The advent of hypervisors revolutionized the computing industry in terms of <i>malware prevention and detection, secure virtual machine managers, </i> and <i>cloud resilience.</i> However, this has resulted in a disjointed response to handling known threats rather than preventing unknown <i>zero-day</i> threats. This thesis introduces a new paradigm to cloud computing &ndash; <i>utility virtual machines</i> &ndash; that directly leverages virtualization hardware for protection and eliminates often accepted roles of the operating system kernel. This represents a break from prevailing practices and serves to establish a hardware root of trust for system operation.</p><p>

Identiferoai:union.ndltd.org:PROQUEST/oai:pqdtoai.proquest.com:10190644
Date24 October 2017
CreatorsDenz, Robert
PublisherDartmouth College
Source SetsProQuest.com
LanguageEnglish
Detected LanguageEnglish
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