The MEERKATS Cloud Security Architecture

摘要: MEERKATS is a novel architecture for cloud environments that elevates continuous system evolution and change as first-rate design principles. Our goal to enable an environment services constantly changes along several dimensions, toward creating unpredictable target adversary. This unpredictability will both impede the adversary's ability achieve initial compromise and, if occurs, detect, disrupt, and/or otherwise his exploit this success. Thus, we envision where data are in flux, using adaptive (both proactive reactive) protection mechanisms distributed monitoring at various levels of abstraction. A key element focus on software cloud, not just protecting but leveraging improve mission resilience. seeks effectively "economies scale" (in resources available) provide higher flexibility effectiveness deployment use needed, focusing current anticipated application needs instead inefficient, "blanket" approach "everything same way, all time". We outline our vision describe prototyping it.