Thoughts on hypervisor-based virtualization threats and vulnerabilities / Pensamentos sobre ameaças e vulnerabilidades de virtualização baseadas no hipervisor

Abstract

As vulnerability and threat analysis play a vital role in software security in an ever-increasing digital world of virtualized computer and information systems, it is paramount that key security concepts are understood and that crucial security practices are applied in order to safeguard these types of assets. For that, this work attempts to provide an insight at vulnerabilities and threats related to the hypervisor model of virtualization while also fomenting a discussion about the security demands and challenges that this technology brings.