2019/07/13 by Amin Mosayyebzadeh, Mosayyebzadeh, Amin, Gerardo Ravago +27
Computer Science · #Advanced Malware Detection Techniques #Cloud Data Security Solutions #Cryptography and Security (cs.CR) #Distributed #FOS: Computer and information sciences #Parallel #Security and Verification in Computing #and Cluster Computing (cs.DC)
paper · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1907.07627
openalex publication_date 2019/07/13 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
Bolted is a new architecture for a bare metal cloud with the goal of providing security-sensitive customers of a cloud the same level of security and control that they can obtain in their own private data centers. It allows tenants to elastically allocate secure resources within a cloud while being protected from other previous, current, and future tenants of the cloud. The provisioning of a new server to a tenant isolates a bare metal server, only allowing it to communicate with other tenant's servers once its critical firmware and software have been attested to the tenant. Tenants, rather than the provider, control the tradeoffs between security, price, and performance. A prototype demonstrates scalable end-to-end security with small overhead compared to a less secure alternative.