Evaluation of popular application sandboxing

Faisal Al Ameiri, Khaled Salah

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Abstract

Sandboxing is a modern technique that can be employed at the application or OS level to test untrusted or untested programs. It monitors and limits the level of access that the program has. This can prevent the damaging effect of a program if it is malicious or not coded properly. Nonetheless, sandboxing adds extra overhead cost which affects the speed and performance of a running program. In this paper, we focus on evaluating experimentally popular sandboxes that run at the application level. We examine the performance of application sandboxes by running different types of benchmarks within these sandboxes. We examine the performance in terms of execution time and the usage of physical memory, disk I/O, and network I/O.

Original languageBritish English
Title of host publication2011 International Conference for Internet Technology and Secured Transactions, ICITST 2011
Pages358-362
Number of pages5
StatePublished - 2011
Event2011 International Conference for Internet Technology and Secured Transactions, ICITST 2011 - Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
Duration: 11 Dec 201114 Dec 2011

Publication series

Name2011 International Conference for Internet Technology and Secured Transactions, ICITST 2011

Conference

Conference2011 International Conference for Internet Technology and Secured Transactions, ICITST 2011
Country/TerritoryUnited Arab Emirates
CityAbu Dhabi
Period11/12/1114/12/11

Keywords

  • Computer Security
  • Malware
  • Operating Systems
  • Performance Evaluation
  • Sandboxing

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