hack-proof

[bkon]

with the latest virtualization softwares and the multi threading technology, how will the the intel multi cores help for a hack-proof environment?

[David_O_Intel1]

I don't think Intel multi-core or hyper-threading technologies provideany contributionto system security. Rather, they provide increased parallelism which greatly improves processing power.

System security is handled on a coarse-grained level by the VMM which ensures isolation between VMs, and on the fine-grained level by each OS which ensures isolation between processes running within a VM and the enforcement of user privilege levels.

Intel VT-x provides features related to VMM traps and privilege levels. Take a look at the journal articles in

http://www.intel.com/technology/itj/2006/v10i3/1-hardware/1-abstract.htm?iid=tech_vt_tech+itj

for more information.

David Ott