ABSTRACT
Cloud Computing is benefiting to both cloud hosts and consumers by providing elastic services as a utility. These
services are provided on the basis of Service Level Agreement (SLA). Security and privacy are major issues when
dealing with a multi - tenant model of cloud. Consumers are provided computing power in terms of virtual
machines (VMs). A consumer can have many VMs at a time. Multiple consumers can get different VMs from the
same server. This may lead to cross-VM attacks. This paper introduces a new framework: SAFETY (Security
Awareness Framework for Everyone's Task with You), for maintaining security from cross-VM attacks, Data
leakage, VM theft, VM escape, Hyper jacking and VM Hopping. Experiments and results show that this
framework is suitable and can be used for secure operations at cloud host side.
Keywords: - Cloud Computing, Security, IaaS, VM Scheduling, SAFETY.