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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 15, 2017
Filed:
Jul. 06, 2015
Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute, Daejeon, KR;
Sung-Jin Kim, Daejeon, KR;
ByungJoon Kim, Daejeon, KR;
ChulWoo Lee, Daejeon, KR;
HyoungChun Kim, Daejeon, KR;
ELECTRONICS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS RESEARCH INSTITUTE, Daejeon, KR;
Abstract
An inspection and recovery method and apparatus for handling virtual machine vulnerability, which inspect the security status of a virtual machine in a hypervisor domain, and recover a main system file or limit the use of a virtual machine suspected of being damaged due to hacking depending on the results of inspection, thus providing a secure virtual machine use environment for cloud computing. In the presented method, collection target information and inspection criteria including vulnerability inspection criteria, recovery criteria, and hacking damage criteria are updated. Then, the collection target information is collected from the virtual disk and virtual memory of each virtual machine. Vulnerability is inspected in conformity with the inspection criteria, based on the collected information. A damaged main system file depending on inspection results is recovered based on recovery criteria.