Distributed systems security: issues, processes and solutions

Distributed Systems Security: Issues, Processes, and Solutions, takes a holistic look at the security concerns and challenges, processes, and solutions, aswell as future directions in the context of todays distributed systems. Distributed systems form the backbone of the IT infrastructure in most enterprises today, with mainstream penetration of recent technologies like Web services, grid computing and component architectures. Security is a key concern in distributed systems and must be approached with a judicious blend of theory and pragmatism in the context of building enterprise-scale IT infrastructures. Thus, an approach covering comprehensively the impact of the latest trends in distributed systems on security threats, and solutions addressing these threats is essential for design of robust and secure next generation distributed systems. This book will outline and describe precisely such an approach to security engineering; 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 other important and unique aspect of the book is the application of the technologies and solutions discussed therein to case studies of real distributed systems that the authors have been involved in architecting, developingand running to meet very stringent reliability and security requirements . The case studies will help technologists understand the practical aspects of designing and architecting Security solutions and to map the described solutions to the distributed systems they manage in their workplaces.

• ISBN: 978-0-470-51988-2
• Editorial: John Wiley & Sons
• Encuadernacion: Cartoné
• Páginas: 334
• Fecha Publicación: 13/02/2009
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés