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Researchers create stealth virtual machine that can run alongside insecure VMs


A team of researchers have devised a way to create an isolated and trusted environment on virtualized servers. Called the "Strongly Isolated Computing Environment" (SICE), the approach makes it possible to run sensitive computing processes alongside less secure workloads on the same physical hardware.

SICE, developed by Ahmed M. Azab and Peng Ning of North Carolina State University and  Xiaolan Zhang of  IBM's T. J. Watson Research Center, is currently a research prototype. Peng and his fellow researchers will present a paper on SICE at the ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security in Chicago on October 19. But if further developed, it potentially addresses one of the major security concerns with using virtualized environments: that attackers could take advantage of exploits in a hypervisor environment to access the memory and storage of the virtual machines running within it.

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