Cloud-Based Detection of Malware and Viruses

The advent of cloud-computing brings with it the need to secure the cloud serveres for all internet enabled devices that will be accessing cloud services. In the "Enhanced Detection of Malware" article, the authors propose a cloud-based anti-malware/anti-virus architecture. The article goes into quite some detail and has some really good visualizations of the proposed architecture that Intel is researching. Intel has been researching these architectures for quite some time. The proposed Cloud Anti-virus Server component make sense.

This architecture makes extensive use of x86 virtualization leveraging Intel Virtualization Technology (Intel VT) and Intel Active Management Technology (Intel AMT) microprocessor capabilities. Here is a link to the OpenAMT site.

There is an excellent set of research resources in the references section of the article. This is a must read for anyone involved in systems administration, network engineering, systems engineering and security of networks.