Security and robustness for collaborative monitors

Abstract

Decentralized monitors can be subject to robustness and security risks. Robustness risks include attacks on the monitor’s infrastructure in order to disable parts of its functionality. Security risks include attacks that try to extract information from the monitor and thereby possibly leak sensitive information. Formal methods to analyze the design of a monitor with respect to these issues can help to create more secure designs and/or identify critical parts. In this paper we specify a model for analyzing robustness and security risks for collaborative monitors constructed from a network of local monitors.