Vulnerabilities and threats in distributed systems

  • Authors:
  • Bharat Bhargava;Leszek Lilien

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Computer Sciences and Center for Education, and Research in Information Assurance and Security (CERIAS), Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN;Department of Computer Sciences and Center for Education, and Research in Information Assurance and Security (CERIAS), Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN

  • Venue:
  • ICDCIT'04 Proceedings of the First international conference on Distributed Computing and Internet Technology
  • Year:
  • 2004

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Abstract

We discuss research issues and models for vulnerabilities and threats in distributed computing systems We present four diverse approaches to reducing system vulnerabilities and threats They are: using fault tolerance and reliability principles for security, enhancing role-based access control with trust ratings, protecting privacy during data dissemination and collaboration, and applying fraud countermeasures for reducing threats.