Managing time for service and security
Ruth Nelson, Elizabeth Schwartz · 1996
Most security policies and mechanisms ure concerned with controlling the dissemination of information or assuring its integrit.v.System management policies emphusize allocating resourcesfairly.Combining techniques from security and management can allow us to develop countermeasures aguinst many of the network attucks on our systems.In particular, security policies and mechanisms need to be extended to manage resources quantitatively, as well as in a binary manner.The question is not whether access to service is allowed or not, but how to pruvide all the uuthorized services to the limit allowed by the cupucity of the system.This paper explores the idea of ullocating time-limited resources to deter or counter attucks that can cause the system to overload or crash.These overloads can cause not only loss of system availubility to legitimate, well-behaved users, but also loss of system integrity und information security.