Virtualisation
March 10th, 2010 at 03:59pm
Under Virtualisation
Steve Riley, Amazon Web Services (AWS) evangelist, at the recent RSA Conference discussed managed encryption services. He talked about having either a hardware security module (HSM) or a software key store in the cloud accessible via an API. There was this comment from the floor:
A security strategist with a well-known online payment service said that [...]
Continue Reading Amazon adding TPM-like facilities to the cloud?
Tags: amazon
By Ken Y-N
February 9th, 2010 at 03:31pm
Under Virtualisation
According to a recent press release, General Dynamics have had their Trusted Virtual Environment (TVE) added to the list of approved products for use by the US Department of Defense and intelligence communities. The product is all software and runs on standard off-the-shelf PCs, and, although not stated in the article, it uses a Trusted [...]
Continue Reading General Dynamics get their Trusted Virtual Environment approved
Tags: general dynamics, tve
By Ken Y-N
February 4th, 2010 at 02:46pm
Under Virtualisation
L4 and its variants is a popular microkernel that can be found in many places, including even right at the bottom of Google’s Android system. So, I was interested to read about a formal proof for seL4, after five years of work by Open Kernel Labs and NICTA, Australia’s Information and Communications Technology Research Centre [...]
Continue Reading Open Kernel Labs’ kernel proved correct
Tags: open kernel labs, sel4
By Ken Y-N
November 26th, 2009 at 01:16pm
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I picked up this release note from OS News about Genode 9.11 being released. It now also supports para-virtualisation of the Linux kernel, as well as many other things. Genode is a spin-off project from the L4 kernel (another spin-off is used in Android) from the TU Dresden OS research group, who also did the [...]
Continue Reading Genode – an L4-based microkernel trusted computing base
Tags: genode, l4, os news
By Ken Y-N
November 25th, 2009 at 03:56pm
Under Virtualisation
Channel Register recently had a look at the state of play in the virtualisation world, which included this interesting fact:
Richard Brown from HP Labs says they have come up with the idea of a bare metal hypervisor which is integrated with a trusted computing module (TCM) fitted to the system the hypervisor is running. The [...]
Continue Reading HP building a trusted "bare metal hypervisor"
Tags: channel register, hp, opentc
By Ken Y-N
September 22nd, 2009 at 01:17pm
Under Virtualisation
On vmblog.com (tagline: Virtualization Technology News and Information) they recently published an article about HyTrust and VMware joining forces to realise trusted computing on a virtualised cloud infrastructure.
I pose the question "What is the HyTrust Appliance?" because the article doesn’t actually explain it, but it seems to be some sort of virtualisation hub for supporting [...]
Continue Reading What is the HyTrust Appliance?
Tags: hytrust, vmware
By Ken Y-N
September 21st, 2009 at 03:10pm
Under Virtualisation
Here’s an interesting post from the Parked @ PARC blog on a paper that the writer will be presenting at CCSW 2009: The ACM Cloud Computing Security Workshop entitled Controlling Data in the Cloud: Outsourcing Computation without Outsourcing Control.
Unfortunately a copy of the paper has not been published yet, as far as I can see, [...]
Continue Reading Controlling Data in the Cloud
Tags: ccsw, cloud computing, fujitsu, parc
By Ken Y-N
July 20th, 2009 at 03:12pm
Under MTM+ Virtualisation
Embedded Computing recently published an article by Steve Subar of Open Kernel Labs on mobile phone virtualization. This is a subject in which I have a lot of active interest, especially in relation to the Mobile Trusted Module and its associated Multi-Stakeholder Model.
Open Kernel Labs’ OKL4 hypervisor has found its way into the two biggest [...]
Continue Reading Virtualization on mobile phones
Tags: android, iphone, open kernel labs
By Ken Y-N
April 28th, 2009 at 02:33pm
Under Virtualisation
New Electronics recently printed an article by David Kleidermacher of Green Hills Systems asking are hypervisors as secure as you think?
Since Green Hills have a virtualisation architecture, not too surprisingly the answer was “most aren’t, but ours are!”
To be less cynical, I think the point he is trying to make is that Green Hills’ INTEGRITY [...]
Continue Reading Is your hypervisor secure?
Tags: green hills, integrity, new electronics
By Ken Y-N
January 20th, 2009 at 02:10pm
Under Virtualisation
20 Jan 2009
Here’s an interesting note from the blog IDentity enabled Enterprise Architecture (IDEA!!) regarding SCIT (Self-Cleansing Intrution Tolerance) and Trusted Virtual Machines to allow computers to recover from attacks. It says:
Trusted Computing with Trusted Interfaces, Trusted Storage and Trusted SW stack, plus, Trusted connects, and more will play a key role to augment SCIT [...]
Continue Reading Trusted, Tolerant and Transient Virtual Machines
Tags: scit
By Ken Y-N
