PhD Project 12 (SYSGO)

Virtualization-based continuous monitoring services for security

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Host: SYSGO, Research and Technology.

• Main supervisor: Dr. Sergey Tverdyshev, sergey.tverdyshev@sysgo.com
• Co-supervisor: Prof. Gerhard Fohler, fohler@eit.uni-kl.de

Requirements:

• Mandatory requirements for all PhD positions
• Please contact the main supervisor for additional requirements

Objectives:

1. Develop virtualization-based continuous monitoring solutions for security, capable of detecting security attacks, which takes advantage of the hypervisor’s access to low-level hardware states.
2. Integrate the security solutions into the PikeOS hypervisor.

Expected Results:

• Propose an in-depth security solution where every device (FN) contributes to the overall system security.
• Determine how access to hardware by the hypervisor, e.g., control flow analysis and to direct network traffic can be used to assess potentially malicious application behavior.
• Implement prototype intrusion and anomaly detection solutions using real-time machine learning.
• Evaluate the overhead of the implemented solutions.
• Extend SYSGO’s PikeOS hypervisor with the proposed security monitoring services.

Planned visits and collaboration:

• TUKL (Prof. Gerhard Fohler): Evaluate the worst-case overhead of the anomaly detection solutions.

Description:

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Relevant publications:

Please contact the main supervisor for relevant publications about the topic area.