Testing Data Integrity in Distributed Systems

Security threats in a distributed environment are one of the greatest threats in IT and big data on distributed infrastructure makes it more complex and difficult to implement a fool proof security framework. Network provides the access path for both inside and outside attacks which makes it the key access point for any type of security threats. Securing distributed infrastructure is not an easy task as it is complex, it requires careful configuration and it is subject to human errors. Distributed environment should be open but with proper security framework in place. Testing security threats in this kind of a complex infrastructure, with huge and unstructured data is an on-going process. Hence we need a security testing model which is capable to identify any unauthenticated intrusion immediately. This paper presents a technique to test distributed environments against attacks on data integrity. (C) 2015 The Authors. Published by Elsevier B.V.