Abstract
D.Phil.
Virtualization is a new infrastructure platform whose trend is sweeping through IT like a blaze.
Improving the IT industry by higher utilization from hardware, better responsiveness to changing
business conditions and lower cost operations is a must have in the new generation of
virtualization solutions.
Virtualization is not just one more entry in the long line of “revolutionary” products that have hit
the technology marketplace. Many parts of the technology ecosystem will be affected as the
paradigm shifts from the old one-to-one correspondence between software and hardware to the
new approach of software operating on any hardware that happens to be most suitable to use at the
time.
This brings along with it security concerns, which need to be addressed. Security evolving in and
around the virtualized system will become more pertinent the more virtualization is employed into
everyday IT technology and use. In this thesis, a security model for virtualization will be developed
and presented. This model will cover the different facets needed to address virtualization security.