Title : 
Survivability: protecting your critical systems
         
        
            Author : 
Ellison, Robert J. ; Fisher, David A. ; Linger, Richard C. ; Lipson, Howard F. ; Longstaff, Thomas A. ; Mead, Nancy R.
         
        
            Author_Institution : 
CERT Coordination Center, Software Eng. Inst., USA
         
        
        
        
        
        
        
            Abstract : 
Society is increasingly dependent upon large-scale, distributed systems that operate in unbounded network environments. Survivability helps ensure that such systems deliver essential services and maintain essential properties in the face of attacks, failures, and accidents
         
        
            Keywords : 
fault tolerant computing; safety-critical software; critical systems protection; distributed systems; unbounded network environments; Accidents; Computer crime; Fault tolerance; Immune system; Large-scale systems; Probes; Protection; Software engineering; Stress; Terminology;
         
        
        
            Journal_Title : 
Internet Computing, IEEE
         
        
        
        
        
            DOI : 
10.1109/4236.807008