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Advances, Systems and Applications

Table 1 Comparison summary of surveyed systems

From: A survey on securing the virtual cloud

Cloud security implementation

Reduces attack surface (lines of code)

Malware detection

Mitigates zero-day threats

Added overhead (%)

Malaware

> 725 K

Yes

No

No data

Guest view casting

> 1,600 K

Yes

No

Reduced up to 70%

Virtual snort

> 300 K

Yes

No

No data

Hybrid IDS

> 300 K

Yes

No

~4-36%

VMwall

~ 1,600 K

Yes

No

1-7%

ReVirt

~ 1,800 K

No

Yes

8-58%

NSE-H

> 1,600 K

No

No

15%

Shype

~ 11 k

No

No

< 1%

Shype with Chinese wall in critical path

> 1,600 K

No

No

9.1%

Shype with Chinese wall outside critical path

> 1,600 k

No

No

< 1%

NoHype

< 1,600 K

No

No

Reduced up to 1%

CReW

> 270 K

Yes

Yes

~48-347%

Hypervisor-based proactive recovery

~ 1,600 K

Yes

Yes

~8-12.7%

Bear

~ 11 k

Not applicable

Yes

< 1%