A model to enhance security of live virtual machine migration in cloud computing

Abstract

Cloud Computing has become a new effective technology in IT industries to reduce the costs and increase the quality of service of any sort of services including Platform as a Service (PaaS), Infrastructure as a Service(IaaS) and Software as a service(SaaS). Virtual Machine is a basic unit of each cloud and as far as the security is concerned, maintaining and reducing the vulnerabilities of Virtual Machines is a must. In order to provide a cloud with the highest performance and least fault tolerance, VM Live Migration was introduced, and it is being used many times in a daily maintenance of a cloud, so keeping the process of Live Migration secure is a principle in securing a cloud. Different approaches have been put forward for live migration however, more investigation and concentration needs to be taken on the concept of security on them. In this research MITM attacks are analysed and a new model is introduced to enhance security of Virtual Machine Live Migration against MITM which is using SSL to secure its connection.