[Cloud Computing] Supporting Security Sentitive Tenants in a Bare Metal Cloud Review
What is the paper trying to do? The paper, “Supporting Security Sentitive Tenants in a Bare Metal Cloud”, is trying to present Bolted, an architecture for a bare metal cloud. Bolded is special in that it satisfies the needs of both security sensitive and insensitive tenants; as security sensitive tenants can control their own security and insensitive tenants can use default security. What do you think is the contribution of the paper? What are its major strengths? Allows security sensitive tenants to control their security (assuming physical security and availability is not an issue). Does not impose overhead on security insensitive tenants and does not employ extra cost on flexibility and operational efficiency of the provider. Eliminate the need to trust the provider to disk scrub via disk-less provisioning. “remote attestation” allow tenants to inspect source code used to generate the firmware it runs on. Performance Evaluation Can rapidly set up secure servers with com...