An intrusion tolerant architecture for dynamic content internet servers

Abstract

This paper describes a generic architecture for intrusion tolerant Internet servers. It aims to build systems that are able to survive attacks in the context of an open network such as the Internet. To do so, the design is based on fault tolerance techniques, in particular redundancy and diversification. These techniques give a system the additional resources to continue delivering the correct service to its legitimate clients even when active attacks are corrupting parts of the system components.