We argue that hypervisors are an increasingly attractive avenue for improving the security of end-user systems. Although hypervisors have been used for security applications in the past, we show that there are substantial unexplored opportunities to directly attack security issues that users care about, such as secure interactions with online services. We thus propose that the research community build a deployable security-enhancing hypervisor for consumer PCs, and discuss the main challenges in meeting this goal. We believe that this is one of the best chances that researchers currently have to make a substantial impact on end-user security.
Title
Hypervisors as a Foothold for Personal Computer Security: An Agenda for the Research Community
Published
2012-01-13
Full Collection Name
Electrical Engineering & Computer Sciences Technical Reports
Other Identifiers
EECS-2012-12
Type
Text
Extent
7 p
Archive
The Engineering Library
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