Title
Redesigning remote system administration paradigms for enhanced security and flexibility
Abstract
Remote system administration is usually performed according to the standard client-server model. However, important security and flexibility limitations, arising from the usage of a predictable access port for such a critical application, prevent a satisfactory trade-off between authentication strength and service availability. We illustrate an alternative solution, based on an additional system placed in between the remote server and its administrator. Our design ensures that the new component's role does not weaken the existing security mechanisms already in place, but it can instead enhance them, and provide a very effective decoupling between a server and its visible management ports.
Year
DOI
Venue
2008
10.1016/j.csi.2008.03.011
Computer Standards & Interfaces
Keywords
Field
DocType
flexibility limitation,remote system administration,important security,remote system administration paradigm,effective decoupling,authentication strength,alternative solution,critical application,existing security mechanism,remote server,additional system,enhanced security,intelligent agent,security,intelligent agents,client server
Remote system,Port (computer networking),Intelligent agent,Authentication,Computer science,Distributed System Security Architecture,Computer security,Computer network,System administration
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
30
6
0920-5489
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
2
0.41
7
Authors
2
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Marco Prandini14514.09
Marco Ramilli29411.10