Systems and Methods Involving Features of Hardware Virtualization, Hypervisor, Pages of Interest, and/or Other Features

摘要

Systems, methods, computer readable media and articles of manufacture consistent with innovations herein are directed to computer virtualization, computer security and/or memory access. According to some illustrative implementations, innovations herein may utilize and/or involve a separation kernel hypervisor which may include the use of a guest operating system virtual machine protection domain, a virtualization assistance layer, and/or a detection mechanism (which may be proximate in temporal and/or spatial locality to malicious code, but isolated from it), inter alia, for detection and/or notification of, and action by a monitoring guest upon access by a monitored guest to predetermined physical memory locations.

主权项

1. A method for processing information securely, the method comprising:
partitioning hardware platform resources via a separation kernel hypervisor into a plurality of guest operating system virtual machine protection domains; providing a dedicated virtualization assistance layer (VAL) including a virtual representation of the hardware platform that is a virtual machine in each of the guest operating system virtual machine protection domains such that the dedicated VAL security processing is not performed in the separation kernel hypervisor; processing the virtual machine via another guest; hosting at least one detection mechanism that executes within the virtual hardware platform in each of the plurality of guest operating system virtual machine protection domains via the separation kernel hypervisor; upon detection of suspect behavior, securely transition execution to the detection mechanism within the VAL in a manner isolated from the guest operating system; securely determining, via the detection mechanism, a policy decision regarding the suspect behavior; and transitioning execution back to the separation kernel hypervisor to continue processing regarding enforcement of or taking action in connection with the policy decision.