TITLE:
Security Challenges of Virtualization Hypervisors in Virtualized Hardware Environment
AUTHORS:
Gabriel Cephas Obasuyi, Arif Sari
KEYWORDS:
Virtualization, Hypervisors, Virtual Machine, Virtual Machine Monitor, Security
JOURNAL NAME:
International Journal of Communications, Network and System Sciences,
Vol.8 No.7,
July
17,
2015
ABSTRACT: The concept of virtualization machines is
not new, but it is increasing vastly and gaining popularity in the IT world.
Hypervisors are also popular for security as a means of isolation. The virtualization
of information technology infrastructure creates the enablement of IT resources
to be shared and used on several other devices and applications; this increases
the growth of business needs. The environment created by virtualization is not restricted
to any configuration physically or execution. The resources of a computer are
shared logically. Hypervisors help in virtualization of hardware that is a
software interact with the physical system, enabling or providing virtualized
hardware environment to support multiple running operating system
simultaneously utilizing one physical server. This paper explores the benefits,
types and security issues of Virtualization Hypervisor in virtualized hardware
environment.