Framework of Security Mechanisms for Monitoring Adaptive Distributed Systems
Manjunath Kotari, Niranjan N. Chiplunkar, H. R. Nagesh · IOSR Journal of Computer Engineering · 2016
The distributed systems have a noteworthy role in today's information technology, whether it is governmental or nongovernmental organizations.The major concern of today's software industry is that dealing with security, scalability and dynamicity of distributed systems.Adaptive Distributed Systems (ADSs) are nodes in networked computers, which change itself according to changes in the environments.A monitoring system or tool is used to identify the changes in the distributed systems and all the activities of the entire network.This monitoring system may be compromised by the intruder while gathering the information from the distributed systems.This paper, framework of security mechanisms for monitoring ADSs is discussed by following tasks.Firstly, investigation of existing monitoring tools to find the impacts of monitoring activities in ADSs.When the monitoring tool collects security critical information, there is a high risk of information disclosure to unauthorized users.Secondly, a secure communication channel to monitor confidential information has been implemented by using RSA algorithm.Thirdly, a secure, customized network monitoring tool has been implemented by providing the necessary security for each parameter in the system.Security metrics are used to measure the security levels of each monitored parameter.