A Study of Security Isolation Techniques

作者：Shu Rui^*; Wang Peipei; Gorski Sigmund A; Andow Benjamin; Nadkarni Adwait; Deshotels Luke; Gionta Jason; Enck William; Gu Xiaohui

来源：ACM Computing Surveys, 2016, 49(3): 50.

DOI：10.1145/2988545

• Security isolation
• access control
• resilient architectures

Security isolation is a foundation of computing systems that enables resilience to different forms of attacks. This article seeks to understand existing security isolation techniques by systematically classifying different approaches and analyzing their properties. We provide a hierarchical classification structure for grouping different security isolation techniques. At the top level, we consider two principal aspects: mechanism and policy. Each aspect is broken down into salient dimensions that describe key properties. We break the mechanism into two dimensions, enforcement location and isolation granularity, and break the policy aspect down into three dimensions: policy generation, policy configurability, and policy lifetime. We apply our classification to a set of representative articles that cover a breadth of security isolation techniques and discuss tradeoffs among different design choices and limitations of existing approaches.

• 出版日期2016-12