The security threats and corresponding measures to distributed storage systems

  • Authors:
  • Lanxiang Chen;Dan Feng;Liang Ming

  • Affiliations:
  • School of Computer Science and Technology, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan National Laboratory for Optoelectronics, Wuhan, China;School of Computer Science and Technology, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan National Laboratory for Optoelectronics, Wuhan, China;School of Computer Science and Technology, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan National Laboratory for Optoelectronics, Wuhan, China

  • Venue:
  • APPT'07 Proceedings of the 7th international conference on Advanced parallel processing technologies
  • Year:
  • 2007

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Abstract

There are various threats in distributed storage systems, but there is no comprehensive category. There are some research works on threat modeling and the challenges of protecting storage systems, but there is no corresponding security measure to these threats and challenges. In this paper, elements of storage security and a comprehensive category of threats are presented, which goes from hardware level to software level, from kernel level to application level, from local to network. The corresponding security measures to these threats are provided. And the seven steps process of security is proposed which gives methodology to implement these security measures. Finally, some important storage security issues and future directions to storage security are concluded.