SECURITY ORIENTED COMPUTING
This refers to components of organizational security programs that ate put in place to ensure the safeguarding of an organization’s framework. They play quite a significant role in preventing cybercrime or manipulation of an organizations data. They are not necessarily focused on Information technology but rather are concepts that have been put to the test and proved to be viable. One of this concepts is security oriented computing. It can be best described as a strategy to prepare for unavoidable failures. It is a slight alteration from the principle known as recovery oriented computing. Both concepts revolve around the ideology that accidents are anticipated in key aspects and will occur at one point .Security oriented computing operates on a number of principles that ensure its effectiveness.
One of this assumptions is that all security controls are vulnerable and may end up causing inaccessibility of the intended service or even worse, unauthorized users. This helps the particular organization be on high alert and ensure that their security controls are monitored at all times .Another assumption is that all people conducting alterations or configurations to the system may introduce loopholes to the latter due to wrongful installation or a mistake made during the configuration. The third assumption is that all people conducting day to day operations are subject to make normal errors if the computer allows them to. Interfacing with humans creates situations that increase the margin of error due to factors such as assumptions, fatigue or improper training.
In corporate computing environments where thousands of nodes, applications and processes exist, the probability of a normal error to occur are significantly high to the extent that it is mathematically possible to prove that it is next to impossible to prevent such errors from occurring. Reasonable measures must be undertaken to detect this errors and strive to reduce the impact of either the computer or humans catalyzing these errors. The goal of security oriented in any given setting is not only to seek perfection but also anticipate less of this, and be able to tackle arising issues. Implementers and administrators can use the following designer administrative principles to achieve a good computing system
First, would be to put set ups that would alert them of errors. This would play an important role in ensuring that occurrence of errors is detected early enough so as to prevent further damage to the system. Early detection helps save the organization money by resolving errors at the grass root level by resolving it, further damage is averted. Secondly would be assessing of weak points. This help the organization identify areas that they makes them vulnerable and seal these holes before they can result in damage to the system. It also assist them know where the highest probability of error is most likely to take place. This puts them in a better position to anticipate this and handle it early enough. Thirdly would be to set up defense in depth. This comprises putting up of multiple security checks at different intervals to ensure that the system is completely protected and if one fails there are other methods that will continue protecting the latter. The other point would be to ensure that the time period between failure and resolution of the error is as short as possible, it is referred to as recovery. This ensures that saved data is not lost or damaged. A good example of where this applies, is in large logistic companies where they employ the above strategies to ensure that their systems are working efficiently and their data is safe.
Work cited: Reiter, Michael, Kenneth P. Birman, and Li Gong. Integrating Security in a Group Oriented Distributed System. Ithaca, N.Y: Dept. of Computer Science, Cornell University, 1992. Print.
Reiter, Michael, Kenneth P. Birman, and Li Gong. Integrating Security in a Group Oriented Distributed System. Ithaca, N.Y: Dept. of Computer Science, Cornell University, 1992. Print
Reiter, Michael, Kenneth Birman, and Li Gong. Integrating Security in a Group Oriented Distributed System. Ft. Belvoir: Defense Technical Information Center, 1991. Print.