NDLI: Turret: A Platform for Automated Attack Finding in Unmodified Distributed System Implementations

Content Provider	IEEE Xplore Digital Library
Author	Hyojeong Lee Seibert, J. Hoque, E. Killian, C. Nita-Rotaru, C.
Copyright Year	2014
Description	Author affiliation: Dept. of Comput. Sci., Purdue Univ., West Lafayette, IN, USA (Hyojeong Lee; Seibert, J.; Hoque, E.; Killian, C.; Nita-Rotaru, C.)
Abstract	Security and performance are critical goals for distributed systems. The increased design complexity, incomplete expertise of developers, and limited functionality of existing testing tools often result in bugs and vulnerabilities that prevent implementations from achieving their design goals in practice. Many of these bugs, vulnerabilities, and misconfigurations manifest after the code has already been deployed making the debugging process difficult and costly. In this paper, we present Turret, a platform for automatically finding performance attacks in unmodified implementations of distributed systems. Turret does not require the user to provide any information about vulnerabilities and runs the implementation in the same operating system setup as the deployment, with an emulated network. Turret uses a new attack finding algorithm and several optimizations that allow it to find attacks in a matter of minutes. We ran Turret on 5 different distributed system implementations specifically designed to tolerate insider attacks, and found 30 performance attacks, 24 of which were not previously reported to the best of our knowledge.
Starting Page	660
Ending Page	669
File Size	649634
Page Count	10
File Format	PDF
ISSN	10636927
e-ISBN	9781479951697
DOI	10.1109/ICDCS.2014.73
Language	English
Publisher	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Publisher Date	2014-06-30
Publisher Place	Spain
Access Restriction	Subscribed
Rights Holder	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Subject Keyword	Operating systems Testing Protocols Libraries Real-time systems Algorithm design and analysis Optimization distributed systems automatic attack finding
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Computer Networks and Communications Hardware and Architecture Software

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