Conceptual Verification of Multi-Level Visibility Points for SmartX MultiView Security

With emerging cloud-native computing, the resource infrastructure is becoming complicated to flexibly accommodate physical, virtual, and containerized functions in a single box or clustered boxes. Unfortunately, this kind of complicated resource infrastructure is prone to diversified security attacks. Thus, it is important to systematically detect security attacks by analyzing multiple kinds of visibility (i.e., monitoring and tracing) data, aligned with physical, virtual, and containerized layers of functions and boxes. Thus, by extending SmarX MultiView Visibility Framework (MVF), in this paper, we conceptualize its multi-level security extension by adding multi-level visibility points to the multi-layer visibility collection of SmartX MVF. Also, we verify the proposed concept with a preliminary prototype over clustered boxes with physical and virtual resource layers.