26th of April, at 16h00, Charles Gonçalves will give a presentation entitled“Intrusion Injection for Virtualized Systems: Concepts and Approach”
Location: G4.1
Bio
Charles F. Gonçalves received a B.Sc. and an M.Sc. degree in computer science from the Federal University of Minas Gerais (UFMG) Brazil. He is currently pursuing a Ph.D. degree in Informatics Engineering at the University of Coimbra (UC). He is a Software and System Engineering (SSE) Group member in the CISUC and also from the SPEC Research Security Benchmarking Working Group. His interests include Virtualization Security, Security Benchmarking, Data Processing, and Software Development.
Abstract
Virtualization is drawing attention due to countless benefits, leaving Hypervisors with the paramount responsibility for performance, dependability, and security. However, while there are consolidated approaches to assessing the performance and dependability of virtualized systems, solutions to assess security are very limited. Key difficulties are evaluating the system in the presence of unknown attacks and vulnerabilities and comparing the security attributes of different systems and configurations when an intrusion occurs.
In this talk, we will discuss the concept of intrusion injection for virtualized environments, which consists of directly driving the system into the erroneous states that mimic the ones resulting from actual intrusions (in the same way errors are injected to mimic the effects of residual faults).