Theft Protection Developed for Virtual Machines

TU Darmstadt scientists have found a way to promptly detect hacker attacks on virtual machines. Companies and government agencies that employ virtual machines can thus protect data stored on them against theft.

Virtual machines are computers that incorporate no hardware and are totally simulated by software. Virtual machines are much more flexibly and efficiently utilizable than conventional computers, since, like all other types of software files, they may be rapidly transferred from one location to another with little effort. However, that particular feature harbors risks, since users will not notice unauthorized migrations out of their company's or government-agency's network due to hacker attacks. An entire virtual machine and all of the data stored on it may thus fall into the wrong hands within a few seconds.

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