A Holistic Approach for Service Migration Decision, Strategy and Scheduling

Service migration can be used as a security mechanism to dynamically move critical services from their current compromised platforms to other clean, healthy platforms in a security incident to avoid further loss and to ensure the services are continuously provided to users. We present a holistic approach for service migration decision, strategy specification and scheduling arrangement. Our approach represents the management aspect of a service migration and is essential for conducting an effective and efficient service migration to respond to malicious attacks. We apply transferable belief theory, fuzzy inference and logic reasoning to implement the decision components of this approach. The proposed methodology can be used in various service migration scenarios. Keywords—service migration; decision; strategy; scheduling