By Anirban Chakrabarti
Grid computing is generally considered as a know-how of vast power in either and academia. but many firms are nonetheless hesitant concerning the implementation of an enterprise-level grid method, as a result of the loss of constant and universal criteria. safeguard is definitely one of the most vital crisis and desires either shut knowing and cautious implementation as grid computing deals specified protection challenges.Based on his examine and adventure, Chakrabarti has dependent the problems concerning grid computing defense into 3 major different types: architecture-related, infrastructure-related, and management-related concerns. He discusses all 3 different types intimately, provides current options, criteria, and items, and pinpoints their shortcomings and open questions.Together with a quick creation into grid computing mostly and underlying protection applied sciences, this booklet bargains the 1st concise and specific advent to this crucial quarter, concentrating on pros within the grid in addition to scholars focusing on grid computing, networking, peer-to-peer platforms, or working platforms. it could even be used because the foundation for a self-contained path on grid computing safety, complementing the author's tutorials at grid meetings.
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8. Secure Multicasting: This has been an active area of research for the last few years. Most of the solutions presented in this area are research outputs and rarely implemented in a large scale. However solutions like centralized and hierarchical member authentication systems, tree-based, and core based key management systems, and stream signing, and chaining type solutions are important and require mention. Details of the different techniques are provided in Chap. 8. Sensor Grids: Security in sensor networks is a very important issue due to the computational constraints imposed by the devices and network and bandwidth constraints.
The public and the private keys are generated through a mathematical function having the property such that when information is encrypted by the public key it can only be decrypted by the corresponding private key. Knowing the public key it would be computationally very expensive to generate the private key. So each person or a system using such an encryption scheme has its own set of public and private keys where the private key is stored secretly and the public key is disclosed to the whole world.
These types of system create a policy based trust language. Examples of such systems are PeerTrust Trust Negotiation and TrustBuilder. Monitoring Monitoring is the third and one of the most crucial management issues that needs to be tackled in a grid scenario. Monitoring of resources is essential in grid scenarios primarily for two reasons. Firstly, different organizations or departments can be charged based on their usage. Secondly, resource related information can be logged for auditing or compliance purposes.