Moving Target Defense Through Dynamic Virtual Machine Placement in Clouds
Abstract
To safe guard cloud computing and to mitigate the risks of potential compromises, it is important to investigate cloud virtualization from both theoretical and practical perspectives. The objectives of this project are to establish a foundation for virtual machine placement based on moving target defense strategies in clouds, and to create new risk evaluation and dynamic virtual machine migration schemes for cloud security. The project has 3 major thrusts as follows: 1) To build mathematical models to quantitatively evaluate the cloud security risk under different virtual machine placements, and to quantify such risks based on attack graphs. 2) To investigate automatic virtual machine placement generations and to incorporate users incentives in migration. 3) To investigate multi-objective optimization in virtualization schemes with regards to migration and deployment costs and the potential security loss without migration.
Document Details
- Document Type
- DoD Grant Award
- Publication Date
- Jan 12, 2017
- Source ID
- W911NF1510262
Entities
People
- Songqing Chen
Organizations
- Army Contracting Command
- George Mason University
- United States Army