While providing some resistance against cyberattacks, current approaches to securing networked and distributed information systems are mainly concerned with static prevention measures. For example, signature-based systems can only detect known attacks and tend to provide brittle, all-or-nothing protection. New work in survivability and intrusion tolerance focuses on augmenting existing information systems with adaptive defenses. A middleware-based survivability toolkit lets applications use network- and host-based mechanisms in their own defense.
Index Terms:
Homeland security, faul-tolerance, intrusion detection, middleware
Citation:
Michael Atighetchi, Partha Pal, Franklin Webber, Richard Schantz, Christopher Jones, Joseph Loyall, "Adaptive Cyberdefense for Survival and Intrusion Tolerance," IEEE Internet Computing, vol. 8, no. 6, pp. 25-33, Nov./Dec. 2004, doi:10.1109/MIC.2004.54