End of Software, The: Finding Security, Flexibility, and Profit in the On Demand Future

Availability Meets Security

So, what's beyond? Automated security management will integrate technology from the world of high availability and introduce these innovations to the world of high security. High-availability technology has been developed over the years to protect against unintentional faults—physical failure, design faults, software bugs, environmental conditions, and operator error. Typically, security management is applied to protect against intentional faults: The human intended to compromise the system. The bomb was intended to destroy the computer. The software bug was intended to cause harm to the computer. Even though we might make a huge distinction between intended and unintended security threats, the computer doesn't really ...