TRIOB: A Trusted Virtual Computing Environment Based on Remote I/O Binding Mechanism

When visiting cloud computing platforms, users are very concerned about the security of their personal data. Current cloud computing platforms have not provided a virtual computing environment which is fully trusted by users. Meanwhile, the management domain of cloud computing platform is subject to malicious attacks, which can seriously affect the trustworthiness of the virtual computing environment. This paper presents a new approach to build a trusted virtual computing environment in data centers. By means of three innovative technologies, the user’s data can be remotely stored into trusted storage resources, the user’s virtual computing environment is isolated, and the user can automatically detect the rootkit attacks against the cloud computing management domain. We design and implement a Xen-based prototype system called TRIOB. This manuscript presents the design, implementation, and evaluation of TRIOB, with a focus on rootkits detection.