Aspects of adaptive reconfiguration in a scalable intrusion tolerant system

  • Authors:
  • Stephanie Bryant;Feiyi Wang

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-

  • Venue:
  • Complexity - Special issue: Resilient and adaptive defense of computing networks
  • Year:
  • 2003

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Abstract

SITAR architecture integrates basic fault tolerant concepts along with adaptive reconfiguration in a security setting. It enables commercial-off-the-shelf servers to continue operating despite intrusion or partial compromise. The adaptive reconfiguration dynamically changes the system configuration in response to environment threats to maintain service availability. The discussion covers important aspects of SITAR's adaptive reconfiguration mechanism, including its central algorithm, and mitigation of the oscillation problem. The mechanism uses a feedback loop model and techniques of mutual exclusion, steady state monitoring, and system observation to implement cooperative control. The adaptive mechanism is implemented and demonstrated as part of the SITAR prototype system.