OIDM: An Intrusion Detection Mechanism for Object-based Storage System

As the object-based storage device (OSD) protocol emerges as the next generation storage technology, its security has received a great deal of attentions. Object-based storage security mechanism is credential-based. It doesn´t consider intrusion threat. Since OSD can observe all the changes to the object data and attributes, it can spot several types of intrusion. In this paper, we study how intrusion can be detected at object level in OBSS environment. We propose a novel object-based intrusion detection mechanism (OIDM) for protecting OBSS from abuse. In particular we present an OIDM prototype, embedded in current OSD reference implementation, to demonstrate its feasibility