Dependable Management of Untrusted Distributed Systems

Authors: Naftaly Minsky

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In the world of distributed systems, traditional approaches to online management have relied on the cooperation of managed components to provide managers with monitoring and control capabilities. However, this trust in component cooperation is often unwarranted for certain types of systems, such as those based on service-oriented architecture (SOA), leading to unreliable and insecure management processes. In response, Naftaly Minsky introduces a new approach called governance-based management (GBM) that relies on middleware to govern message exchange between system components. GBM can manage distributed systems reliably and securely even without trustworthy cooperation from managed components. Additionally, GBM can incorporate conventional management techniques where appropriate and supports a reflexive mode of management that makes the process safer and more secure. While still a work in progress, GBM has the potential to revolutionize the way we manage distributed systems by addressing longstanding issues related to trust and security in conventional approaches. By leveraging middleware technology to enable secure communication between system components while also allowing for flexible integration with existing management techniques, GBM provides an effective solution for managing distributed systems without relying on untrustworthy cooperation from managed components.
AI-generated keywords: Governance-based Management Distributed Systems Middleware Reflexive Mode Trustworthy Cooperation

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  • Traditional approaches to online management in distributed systems rely on component cooperation for monitoring and control.
  • This trust in component cooperation is often unwarranted for certain types of systems, such as those based on service-oriented architecture (SOA), leading to unreliable and insecure management processes.
  • Naftaly Minsky introduces a new approach called governance-based management (GBM) that relies on middleware to govern message exchange between system components.
  • GBM can manage distributed systems reliably and securely even without trustworthy cooperation from managed components.
  • GBM can incorporate conventional management techniques where appropriate and supports a reflexive mode of management that makes the process safer and more secure.
  • GBM has the potential to revolutionize the way we manage distributed systems by addressing longstanding issues related to trust and security in conventional approaches.
  • By leveraging middleware technology, GBM provides an effective solution for managing distributed systems without relying on untrustworthy cooperation from managed components.
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Abstract: The conventional approach to the online management of distributed systems---represented by such standards as SNMP for network management, and WSDM for systems based on service oriented computing (SOC)---relies on the components of the managed system to cooperate in the management process, by providing the managers with the means to monitor their state and activities, and to control their behavior. Unfortunately, the trust thus placed in the cooperation of the managed components is unwarranted for many types of systems---such as systems based on SOA---making the conventional management of such systems unreliable and insecure. This paper introduces a radically new approach to the management of distributed systems, called governance-based management (GBM), which is based on a middleware that can govern the exchange of messages between system components. GBM has a substantial ability to manage distributed systems, in a reliable and secure manner, even without any trustworthy cooperation of the managed components. And it can fully incorporate the conventional management techniques wherever such cooperation can be trusted. GBM also supports a reflexive mode of management, which manages the management process itself, making it safer. However, GBM is still a work in progress, as it raises several open problems that needs to be addressed before this management technique can be put to practice.

Submitted to arXiv on 18 Mar. 2014

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