Title
Trusted virtual domains on OpenSolaris: usable secure desktop environments
Abstract
Trusted Virtual Domains (TVDs) are a security concept to create separated domains over virtual and physical platforms. Since most existing TVD implementations focus on servers and data centers, there are only few efforts on secure desktop environments. To fill this gap, we present in this paper an implementation of TVDs based on the OpenSolaris operating system. We leverage several of its existing features (e.g., lightweight virtualization, security labels and a secure graphical user interface) and extend OpenSolaris with components for automated management and policy enforcement to create a usable desktop implementation of TVDs. This includes the transparent encryption of external storage and home directories of users, restriction of copy-and-paste according to the TVD policy, efficient deployment of images for user environments, and a central management interface for the administration. Our system enables organizations to securely separate different work flows with sensitive data from each other and from untrusted environments.
Year
DOI
Venue
2010
10.1145/1867635.1867650
STC@CCS
Keywords
Field
DocType
secure graphical user interface,tvd implementations focus,policy enforcement,secure desktop environment,trusted virtual domain,opensolaris operating system,tvd policy,usable secure desktop environment,data center,secure desktop,automated management,tvd,existing feature,management,opensolaris,central management interface,graphic user interface,operating system
USable,Virtualization,Computer science,Server,Implementation,Desktop Management Interface,Graphical user interface,External storage,On-the-fly encryption,Operating system
Conference
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
2
0.42
9
Authors
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Hans Löhr129721.35
Thomas Pöppelmann235717.96
Johannes Rave320.42
Martin Steegmanns420.42
Marcel Winandy583148.15