Intrusions on the vetronics architecture often target specific applications. Intruders exploit vulnerabilities in the architecture and try to halt services or make them behave abnormally. The traditional security approach relies on the fortress model. That is, like a fortress, a preventive wall is built to ensure that the system is not penetrated. Survivability addresses the issue of security on the vetronics architecture. This paper makes recommendations for improvements on the recognition and recovery mechanism of the vetronics survivability strategies by introducing a mechanism for intrusion tolerance to the architecture. This mechanism focuses on addressing the symptoms caused by an attack rather than preventing or detecting, diagnosing, contain or eradicating an attack. Strategies for adaptive responses that are unpredictable to an attacker are described. Finally, requirements for bridging the gap between service and infrastructure are presented.

Chapter Contents:

• 1 Introduction
• 2 Related Work
• 3 Intrusion Tolerant System
• 3.1 Intrusion tolerance versus fault tolerance
• 4 Symptom Detection Mechanism
• 5 Mechanism for Adaptive Response
• 6 Bridging the Gap between Service and Infrastructure
• 6.1 Awareness and control of infrastructure
• 6.2 Resource redundancy and its management
• 6.3 Coordination and management of adaptation
• 7 Vetronics Intrusion Tolerant Mechanism
• 8 Conclusion and Future Work
• 9 Acknowledgement
• 10 References

Inspec keywords: security of data; fault tolerant computing; military vehicles; military computing

Other keywords: fortress model; vehicle electronics; integrated vetronics survivability strategy; intrusion tolerant system; vetronics architecture

Subjects: Military engineering computing; Computer communications (military and defence); Transportation (military and defence); Data security