A Cyber Attack-Resilient Server Using Hybrid Virtualization

This paper describes a novel, cyber attack-resilient server using hybrid virtualization that can reduce the downtime of the server and enhance the diversity of operating systems by adding a Linux virtual machine. The hybrid virtualization consists of machine-and application-level virtualization. The prototype system virtualizes a machine using VMware ESXi, while the prototype system virtualizes a server application using Docker on a Linux virtual machine. Docker increases the speed at which a server application starts while requiring fewer resources such as memory and storage. Performance tests showed that the prototype system reduced the downtime of the DNS service by exploiting a vulnerability with no false positive detections compared with our previous work. (C) 2016 The Authors. Published by Elsevier B.V.