Recently, many software organizations have been adopting Continuous Delivery and
Continuous Deployment (CD) practices to develop and deliver quality software more …

Configuration tuning of software is often a good option to improve application performance
without any application code modifications. Although we can casually change …

This paper proposes security techniques for counteracting attacks from malicious end hosts
in a software defined networking (SDN) environment. This paper describes the design of a …

Although multiple techniques have been proposed with the goal of minimizing the semantic
gap in virtual machine introspection, most concentrate on passive observation of the internal …

Continuous verification and security analysis of software systems are of paramount
importance to many organizations. The state-of-the-art for such operations implements agent …

Hosting popular GUI applications in different virtual machines (VMs) in a cloud can provide
strong intra-application isolation and enhance the security of end-user devices. In this …

Emerging security solutions for cloud commonly operate in two phases, data collection and
analytics. Data collection phase provides visibility into cloud resources (images, containers …

Technological inertia leads many organizations to continue employing static provisioning
strategies for bare-metal deployments, resulting in architectural and runtime inefficiencies …

In this paper we make use of SDN for provisioning of Security as a Service (SECaaS) to the
tenant and simplify the security management in cloud. We have developed a Security …

Antivirus is an important issue to the security of virtual machine (VM). According to where the
antivirus system resides, the existing approaches can be categorized into three classes …