Proactive Containment of Malice in Survivable Distributed Systems

Abstract The uncontrolled propagation of faults due to malicious intrusion can severely decrease system performance and survivability. Our goal is to employ available information about known or suspected faults in order to provide collusionavoidance and epidemic-avoidance. We proactively make use of knowledge of faults to notify potentially damaged areas of the system, in order to contain the tainted parts. Our objective is to lessen the impact of an intrusion, by spreading the performance cost of recovery over a controlled period of time.

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2003
• Where: CSREASAM
• Authors: Michael G. Merideth, Priya Narasimhan
• Keywords: CSREASAM 2003, CSREASAM 2007, Faults, Malicious Intrusion, Uncontrolled Propagation