Trusted Virtual Data Center -- Radically simplified
security management
Reiner Sailer
IBM Research
Talk:
Abstract
This talk introduces the Trusted Virtual Data Center (TVDc), which is
designed to offer strong enterprise-level security guarantees in
hosted
data center environments. Designed to satisfy business-level security
goals, TVDc simplifies management and provides explicit
infrastructure-level containment and trust guarantees for data center
environments based on virtualization. In this talk I will give an
overview
of the TVDc concepts as well as related technologies such as the
secure
hypervisor architecture (sHype), the integrity measurement
architecture
(IMA), and the virtualized trusted platform module (vTPM). I will
close
with future work and open research problems.
Biography
Reiner Sailer is a Research Staff Member in the secure systems
department
at IBM T. J. Watson Research Center since 1999. He holds a PhD degree
in
Electronic Engineering from the University of Stuttgart, Germany
(1999),
where his research involved privacy, multi-lateral security, and
security
and fraud control in telecommunication networks. He is the technical
lead
for the Trusted Virtual Data Center at the T. J. Watson Research
Center.
His current research interests include secure hardware, access
control,
network and systems security, trusted computing, and secure
virtualization
infrastructure.