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Analyzing Virtualization Vulnerabilities and Design a Secure Cloud Environment to Prevent from XSS Attack

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  • Nitin Nagar

    (International Institute of Professional Studies, Devi Ahiliya University, Indore, India)

  • Ugrasen Suman

    (School of Computer Science and IT, Devi Ahiliya University, Indore, India)

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Cloud virtualization has created an enormous impact on IT and networking worlds. A cloud environment is built on virtualization technology. Virtualization and its exclusive architecture have numerous features and advantages over non-conventional virtual machines. However, these new uniqueness create new vulnerabilities and attacks on a virtualization based cloud system. Cross Site Scripting (XSS) is among the top cloud vulnerabilities, according to recent studies. This exposure occurs when a user uses the input from a cloud environment application without properly looking into them. This allows an attacker to execute malicious scripts in cloud. The scripts execute harmful actions when a user visits the exploited cloud. Current approaches to mitigate this problem, especially on effective detection of XSS vulnerabilities in the application or prevention of real-time XSS attacks. To address this problem, the survey of different vulnerability attacks on cloud virtualization performed and also presents a concept for the removal of XSS vulnerabilities to secure the cloud environment.

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  • Nitin Nagar & Ugrasen Suman, 2016. "Analyzing Virtualization Vulnerabilities and Design a Secure Cloud Environment to Prevent from XSS Attack," International Journal of Cloud Applications and Computing (IJCAC), IGI Global, vol. 6(1), pages 1-14, January.
    • Handle: RePEc:igg:jcac00:v:6:y:2016:i:1:p:1-14
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