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Selective Versioning in a Secure Disk System

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Selective Versioning in a Secure Disk System
Making vital disk data recoverable even in the event of OS compromises has become a necessity, in view of the increased prevalence of OS vulnerability exploits over the recent years. We present the design and implementation of a secure disk system, SVSDS, that performs selective, flexible, and transparent versioning of stored data, at the disk-level. In addition to versioning, SVSDS actively enforces constraints to protect executables and system log files. Most existing versioning solutions that operate at the disk-level are unaware of the higher-level ions of data, and hence are not customizable. We evolve a hybrid solution that combines the advantages of disk-level and file-system--level versioning systems thereby ensuring security, while at the same time allowing flexible policies. We implemented and evaluated a software-level prototype of SVSDS in the Linux kernel and it shows that the space and performance overheads associated with selective versioning at the disk level are minim...
Swaminathan Sundararaman, Gopalan Sivathanu, Erez
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Updated 02 Oct 2010
Type Conference
Year 2008
Where USS
Authors Swaminathan Sundararaman, Gopalan Sivathanu, Erez Zadok
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