Data Self-Healing Technique Using ASIC Level Security Mechanisms

Computers have a plethora of different applications, spread over a wide spectrum of different branches such as electronic fund transfers, air traffic control, and storage of information in medical systems and so on. In all these security is an important aspect of any operating system and access of information to only properly authorized individuals or processes through the use of special security features should be ensured. The main objective of the proposed self healing scheme is to share and secure the information of any system at the same time. However, sharing and protection are two contradictory goals. Protection programs may be completely isolated from each other by executing them on separate non-networked computer, however, this precludes sharing. The proposed work provides data security based on Dynamic Information Flow Tracking by keeping track of the modified capabilities of the resources. A novel feature of this work is that the proposed architecture allows passive threats to co-exist, thus, making the architecture more user-friendly.