School of Computing Science,
University of Newcastle upon Tyne

The School of Computing Science at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne is one of the largest in the United Kingdom. Its research on distributed multilevel secure systems led to early work on the interplay between fault tolerance and security.

Newcastle had overall responsibility for MAFTIA as project coordinator. Their main technical contributions were to MAFTIA's conceptual model, architecture, and middleware.

Newcastle and LAAS had lead responsibility for the key deliverable on MAFTIA's conceptual model and architecture, to which Newcastle contributed material on the modelling of security policies, the nature of security failures, and faults that could lead to a security failure.

Newcastle used fault tree analysis to develop an informal assessment of MAFTIA's intrusion tolerance capabilities. The various assumptions that underpinned the MAFTIA architecture were documented, and a case study was developed that showed how MAFTIA's mechanisms and protocols could be deployed to protect a simple but realistic e-commerce application

Newcastle worked closely with Lisbon to develop an intrusion tolerant transaction service built on top of the protocols provided by the TTCB developed by Lisbon, and this formed the basis of the final demonstration of the MAFTIA middleware.

People at Newcastle

These people worked on MAFTIA. Names in bold are Executive Board members, others are Research Associates. Names in italics are support staff.

Christine Davies
Barry Hodgson
Brian Randell
Peter Ryan
Elaine Seery
Robert Stroud
John Warne
Jon Warwick
Ian Welch (now Victoria University, Wellington, NZ)