2014/07/16 by Elena Reshetova, Reshetova, Elena, Janne Karhunen +5 · 3 voices · 2 citations
Computer Science · #Security and Verification in Computing #Advanced Data Storage Technologies #Cloud Data Security Solutions
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1407.4245
The need for flexible, low-overhead virtualization is evident on many fronts ranging from high-density cloud servers to mobile devices. During the past decade OS-level virtualization has emerged as a new, efficient approach for virtualization, with implementations in multiple different Unix-based systems. Despite its popularity, there has been no systematic study of OS-level virtualization from the point of view of security. In this report, we conduct a comparative study of several OS-level virtualization systems, discuss their security and identify some gaps in current solutions.