Modular Over-The-Wire Security in Managed Publish-Subscribe Systems

The asynchronous publish-subscribe interaction scheme offers many new possibilities for large scale distributed sys-tems. The need for more dynamic information systems in areas like the power grid and other critical infrastructures are well documented. However, widespread use of publish-subscribe systems is held back by the lack of efficient and dynamic security services. In This paper we present a se-curity architecture that takes advantage of a special form of publish-subscribe to provide a modular, over-the-wire con-figurable, end-to-end security. Addressing critical infras-tructures need for high performance and security, while still be able to handle their usually long lifecycle compared to the continuing evolution in the security field.