Multi-Variant eXecution: State-of-the-Art and Research Challenges

As Internet security issues are becoming increasingly serious, many scholars and experts are exploring new defense strategies. The availability of multi-core computers and cloud computing resources has brought back the original costly defense methods to people’s vision. Among them, the Multi-Variant eXecution (MVX) defense has received widespread attention and is considered a security technology that may change the rules of cyberspace games. In this paper, we analyze and summarize the current MVX defense technology, focusing on the evolution of the architecture and the key technologies. Finally, we point out the challenges to MVX and discuss future research, which is of great significance for the next work.