Securing Your Cloud with the Xen Hypervisor

The Xen Project provides a number of security features which are not particularly difficult to employ, but they require a little thought and planning. In this session, we will briefly cover:

• The basics of the Xen Hypervisor architecture
• The basics of security thinking, including the consideration of the attack surface, the type of information at risk, and the need security-in-depth
• Likely attack scenarios and possible techniques the sysadmin can employ to foil the attacker