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Abstract
Cloud virtualization technology, ingrained with physical resource sharing,
prompts cybersecurity threats on users' virtual machines (VM)s due to the
presence of inevitable vulnerabilities on the offsite servers. Contrary to the
existing works which concentrated on reducing resource sharing and encryption
and decryption of data before transfer for improving cybersecurity which raises
computational cost overhead, the proposed model operates diversely for
efficiently serving the same purpose. This paper proposes a novel Multiple
Risks Analysis based VM Threat Prediction Model (MR-TPM) to secure
computational data and minimize adversary breaches by proactively estimating
the VMs threats. It considers multiple cybersecurity risk factors associated
with the configuration and management of VMs, along with analysis of users'
behaviour. All these threat factors are quantified for the generation of
respective risk score values and fed as input into a machine learning based
classifier to estimate the probability of threat for each VM. The performance
of MR-TPM is evaluated using benchmark Google Cluster and OpenNebula VM threat
traces. The experimental results demonstrate that the proposed model
efficiently computes the cybersecurity risks and learns the VM threat patterns
from historical and live data samples. The deployment of MR-TPM with existing
VM allocation policies reduces cybersecurity threats up to 88.9%.