Towards a Data-Centric Approach to Attribution in the Cloud

摘要: With an increasing number of applications being mirgrated to cloud, it becomes evident that faults in these or the underlying cloud platform can be costly. In cases where a system fault occurs, administrators often find themselves needing answer attribution questions, perform variety managerial tasks including debugging, accountability enforcement, and attack analysis. this chapter, we propose Secure Time-Aware Provenance (STAP), data-centric approach provides fundamental functionality required such questions—the capability “explain” existence (or change) certain distributed state at given time potentially adversarial environment.