Introspections on the semantic gap

Bhushan Jain; Mirza Basim Baig; Dongli Zhang; Donald E. Porter; Radu Sion

doi:10.1109/MSP.2015.35

Introspections on the semantic gap

Bhushan Jain
, Mirza Basim Baig
, Dongli Zhang
, Donald E. Porter
, Radu Sion

Computer Science

Stony Brook University

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Abstract

An essential goal of virtual machine introspection is security policy enforcement in the presence of an untrustworthy OS. One obstacle to this goal is the difficulty in accurately extracting semantic meaning from the hypervisor's hardware-level view of a guest OS.

Original language	English
Article number	7085955
Pages (from-to)	48-55
Number of pages	8
Journal	IEEE Security and Privacy
Volume	13
Issue number	2
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/MSP.2015.35
State	Published - Mar 1 2015

Keywords

security
semantic gap
trust
VM introspection
VMI

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