Communications of the ACM
Data Services With In-Built Self-Defense
Credit: Geir Mogen / SINTEF
SINTEF ICT researchers want data systems to adapt to virus and hacker attacks, and automatically replace compromised software components without inconveniencing the user.
"Our objective is to devise more robust and operationally-secure IT services — whether you are booking concert tickets or submitting your tax returns," says SINTEF's Per Hakon Meland. "We want to enable services to adapt in the face of attacks. Users won't have to close a program and start up again when they get a message saying that 'the service is unavailable at the moment.'"
The researchers believe online reputational mechanisms could be used to market effective IT security. Secure components would need to be designed from the bottom up, and must remain secure even if their operational environment and users change over time. A data system would need to be built in a way that makes it possible to quickly and inexpensively replace weak components. "The new systems would be able to notify the user when a security breach is discovered in a component by means of an alarm service built into the component itself," Meland says.
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