Resiliency Mitigations in Virtualized and Cloud Environments
Abstract
Transitioning from a physical platform environment to a virtual cyber environment poses new challenges as well as opportunities in risk management. Moving a locally-hosted cyber environment to a cloud-hosted environment poses similar challenges and opportunities. While these types of transitions provide capabilities for reducing costs, incorporating redundancy, improving continuity of operations, and increasing cyber resiliency,1 they also reduce the separation between systems,2 the separation between environments, the capabilities for trusted insight into the systems and their environments, the hands-on management, and the control of systems and their environment. This document discusses the challenges posed by virtual and cloud environments, and how cyber resiliency techniques can increase mission assurance in environments whose architectures are based on virtual infrastructure and cloud services. Virtual environments are not the same as cloud environments, yet they frequently support cloud environments; therefore, the risks associated with virtual environments often must be considered in addressing the risks associated with cloud environments.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Mar 01, 2016
- Accession Number
- AD1108075
Entities
People
- Ellen Laderman
- Ken Cox
Organizations
- MITRE Corporation