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Monitoring Systems

Overview Many security systems are concerned one way or another with monitoring some aspect of the environment. They range from ordinary domestic burglar alarms through utility meters to taxi meters, tachographs and even a number of systems critically concerned with nuclear safety.
The protection of these systems is most often more concerned with preventing attacks which involve denial of service, such as swamping communications, overwhelming sensors with noise, or doing other things which, directly or indirectly, decrease the amount of trust which the system owners place in it. Service denial attacks may be augmented, or complemented, with various kinds of data manipulation. Key management can be an issue, especially in low cost widely distributed systems where a central key management facility can't be justied or an adequate base of trustworthy personnel doesn't exist.

Further White Paper Details
Publisher	Cambridge University Computer Laboratory	File Format	PDF, requires Acrobat Rdr 5
Date Published	February 2001	Downloads	8
Format	White Papers
Topics	Monitoring Systems, Denial of Service

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