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Using VProbes for intrusion detection

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Dehnert, Alexander Worthington
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science.
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M. Frans Kaashoek and Ricardo Gonzalez.
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Abstract
Many current intrusion detection systems (IDSes) are vulnerable to intruders because they are running under the same operating system (OS) as a potential attacker. Since an attacker will often be attempting to co-opt the OS, this leaves the IDS vulnerable to subversion by the attacker. While some systems escape this threat, they typically do so by running the OS inside a modified hypervisor. This risks of adding new bugs that reduce the correctness or security of the hypervisor, and may make it harder to incorporate upstream improvements. VMware has a technology called VProbes that allows setting breakpoints, examining machine state, and inspecting memory from a VM host. This thesis introduces VProbe Instrumentation for VM Intrusion Detection (VIVID), which makes subverting the instrumentation much harder while still allowing the use of an off-the-shelf hypervisor.
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Thesis: M. Eng., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 2013.
 
Cataloged from PDF version of thesis.
 
Includes bibliographical references (pages 89-90).
 
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2013
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http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/85414
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Keywords
Electrical Engineering and Computer Science.

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