Towards a distributed, self-organising approach to malware detection in cloud computing

Watson, Michael R. and Shirazi, Syed Noor Ul Hassan and Marnerides, Angelos K. and Mauthe, Andreas and Hutchison, David (2014) Towards a distributed, self-organising approach to malware detection in cloud computing. In: Self-organizing systems : 7th IFIP TC 6 International Workshop, IWSOS 2013, Palma de Mallorca, Spain, May 9-10, 2013, Revised Selected Papers. Lecture Notes in Computer Science . Springer Verlag, ESP, pp. 182-185. ISBN 9783642541391

Abstract

Cloud computing is an increasingly popular platform for both industry and consumers. The cloud presents a number of unique security issues, such as a high level of distribution and system homogeneity, which require special consideration. In this paper we introduce a resilience architecture consisting of a collection of self-organising resilience managers distributed within the infrastructure of a cloud. More specifically we illustrate the applicability of our proposed architecture under the scenario of malware detection. We describe our multi-layered solution at the hypervisor level of the cloud nodes and consider how malware detection can be distributed to each node.