Distributed Systems Security Issues,

This book outlines and describes the impact of the latest trends in distributed systems on security threats, and solutions addressing these threats; with an exhaustive overview of the underlying theoretical underpinnings of security technologies, along with an in-depth coverage of the existing and upcoming security threats and vulnerabilities across different layers of a modern day distributed systems architecture. The book also looks at how existing solutions can be leveraged or enhanced to proactively meet the dynamic and evolving needs of security for the next-generation distributed systems of tomorrow. The book also discusses the applications of the technologies and solutions discussed, providing case studies of real distributed systems that the authors have been involved in architecting, developing and running to meet very stringent reliability and security requirements.

Anirban Chakrabarti holds a PhD degree from the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Iowa State University in Dec. 2003. Currently he works as a Senior Research Associate in the Grid Computing Focus Group in Software Engineering Technology Labs (SETLABS) of Infosys Technologies, India. In Infosys he is working on the virtualization techniques in the Grid Computing area. In Grid computing his main interests lie in security, manageability, workflow management, and application engineering issues. He is also interested in research in the areas of Internet infrastructure encompassing security, routing and multicasting.

Dr. Srinivas Padmanabhuni is a Principal Researcher at Software Engineering and Technology Labs (SETLabs) in Infosys Technologies Limited, Bangalore, India. He heads the Web Services and SOA centre of excellence in SETLabs at Infosys. Dr. Srinivas specializes in Enterprise Security, Web services, Service Oriented Architecture and Grid technologies alongside pursuing interests in semantic web, autonomic computing, recovery oriented computing, intelligent agents, and enterprise architecture. He is on editorial board of international journals, and has served on program committees for several international conferences and workshops including ICWS (International Conference of Web Services), PricAI (Pacific Rim International Conference on AI), NWeSP (International Conferenceon Next Generation Web Services Practices).

Introduction
Background
Distributed Systems
Distributed Systems Security
About the Book
Security Engineering
Introduction
Secure Development Life Cycle Processes - An Overview
A Typical Security Engineering Process
Important Security Engineering Guidelines and Resources
Conclusion
Common Security Issues and Technologies
Security Issues
Common Security Techniques
Summary
Host level Threats and Vulnerabilities
Background
Malware
Eavesdropping
Job faults
Resource starvation
Overflow
Privilege escalation
Injection attacks
Conclusion
Infrastructure Level Threats & Vulnerabilities
Introduction
Network Level Threats and Vulnerabilities
Grid Computing Threats and Vulnerabilities
Storage Threats and Vulnerabilities
Application Level Vulnerabilities and Attacks
Introduction
Application Layer Vulnerabilities
Conclusion
Service Level Issues, Threats and Vulnerabilities
Introduction
SOA and Role of Standards
Service Level Security Requirements
Service Level Threats and Vulnerabilities
Service Level Attacks
Services Threat Profile
Conclusions
Host level Solutions
Background
Sandboxing
Virtualization
Resource Management
Proof carrying code
Memory firewall
Anti malware
Conclusions
Infrastructure Level Solutions
Introduction
Network Level Solutions
Grid Level Solutions
Storage Level Solutions
Application Level Solutions
Introduction
Application Level Security Solutions
Conclusion
Service Level Solutions
Introduction
Services Security Policy
SOA Security standards stack
Standards in Depth
Deployment Architectures for SOA Security
Managing Service Level Threats
Service Threat Solution Mapping
XML Firewall Configuration-Threat Mapping
Conclusions
Case Study - Compliance in Financial Services
Introduction
SOX compliance
SOX Security Solutions
Multi-level policy driven solution architecture
Conclusions
Case Study of Grid
Background
Financial Application
Security Requirements Analysis
Final Security Architecture
Future directions and Conclusions
Future directions
Conclusions
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Distributed Systems Security Issues, Processes and Solutions

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