Security Health monitoring and Attestation of Virtual Machines in Cloud computing Lakshmi Mutyala1, Sukeerthi Kanchi2, Jahnavi Y.3 1Post Graduate, Computer Science & Engineering, Geethanjali Institute of Science and Technology, Nellore, Andhra Pradesh, India 2Assistant Professor, Computer Science & Engineering, Geethanjali Institute of Science and Technology, Nellore, Andhra Pradesh, India 3Professor & Head of the Department Computer Science & Engineering, Geethanjali Institute of Science and Technology, Nellore, Andhra Pradesh, India Online published on 4 June, 2019. Abstract Cloud customers need guarantees regarding the security of their virtual machines (VMs), operating within an Infrastructure as a Service (IAAS) cloud system. This is complicated by the customer not knowing where his VM is executing, and on the semantic gap between what the customer wants to know versus what can be measured in the cloud. We present architecture for monitoring a VM's security health, with the ability to attest this to the customer in an unforgivable manner. We show a concrete implementation of property based attestation and a full prototype based on the Open Stack open source cloud software Top Keywords Cloud computing, IAAS, virtual machine, security health, infrastructure, attestation. Top |