VFRS: A Novel Approach for Intrusion Tolerance in Virtual Computing Environment

With the emergence of multi-core processor, virtualization technology has attracted attention and developed rapidly in recent years. Virtual computing environment based on virtual machine becomes a hot topic in the field of network computing. Virtual computing environment is open, complex and dynamic, which has brought new challenges to system security, especially to intrusion tolerance. In this paper, VFRS method is proposed in order to protect sensitive data from intrusion in virtual computing environment. Firstly, a probability computing model is constructed to present system call sequences and the SCSFA algorithm is designed to predict the attempt of intrusion and to determine what need to protect, which is based on the analysis of system call sequence in virtual computing systems; Secondly, the sensitive data protected are divided into a number of film data, and for the goals of random errors tolerance, each tablet data are redundant backup based on Byzantine fault tolerance; Then, the redundant data are distributed to different virtual machines. VFRS method can predict the anomaly intrusion and well tolerate the complicated errors in virtual computing environment. The experimental results show that VFRS is effective and of high performance compared with related work. Some key issues of the VFRS method are also discussed and analyzed in detail.