Developing Secure Distributed Systems with CORBA

by Ulrich Lang, Rudolf Schreiner

Overview

This new book is a clearly written, well structured guide to building secure distributed applications with CORBA. It helps securing CORBA applications, integrating security infrastructure with CORBA applications, and evaluating the security effectiveness of distributed applications. You get a comprehensive study of the CORBA security architecture, providing you with a better understanding of its goals and limitations. It serves as your complete reference for understanding security in distributed systems.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781580532952
Publisher:	Artech House, Incorporated
Publication date:	02/15/2002
Series:	Artech House Computer Security Series
Pages:	332
Product dimensions:	5.80(w) x 9.00(h) x 1.00(d)

About the Author

Ulrich Lang, a researcher at the University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory, co-founder and Research Director of ObjectSecurity Ltd., received his M.Sc. in Information Security from Royal Holloway College, at the University of London. Before that, he studied computer science with management at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität in Munich, Germany. Rudolf Schreiner, co-founder and Chief Technology Officer of ObjectSecurity Ltd., a consultancy specialized in distributed systems security, received his Dipl.-Phys. from Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität in Munich (Germany) in 1993. Before his career at ObjectSecurity Ltd., he worked as a freelance programmer and consultant on various computer security projects.

Table of Contents

Part I: CORBA Security. Introduction to CORBA — Why CORBA? The Object Management Group (OMG). The Object Management Architecture (OMA). The Common Object Request Broker Architecture (CORBA). How does it all work together? Creating and Running an Example Application. The Security Basics — What is Security? Why Security? Aspects of Security within CORBA. Security Management. Threats, Vulnerabilities, Countermeasures. Middleware Security

Editorial Reviews

Computer security consultants Lang (middleware security, U. of Cambridge) and Schreiner offer a textbook explaining the CORBA (Common Object Request Broker Architecture) security services architecture and its design rationale, and a reference on how to use the services in practice using MICOSec, an open source implementation of the CORBA specification. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)