Security issues and concerns
Distributed computing is more about the collaboration of multiple different systems to work together in a shared environment. Hence, inter-system communication is prone to one of the following threats that is explained in detail here:
- Passive Tap: This is a threat by an intruder to review application interaction and the data being exchanged between systems. It cannot change the data or harm the interaction directly, but it can steal any secured information with the access to view the network data; the intruder can use this information later for improper access. Passive Tap is an easy-to-attack threat for distributed systems.
- Active Tap: This is a threat in which the actual message sent from a client to the server is being accessed to obtain secure information and steal or alter the information in the favor of the interloper.
- Denial-of-Service: This is the scenario wherein the message in a wrong format is consistently trying to access application server that blocks...
