Security Requirements For Increasing Reliability In Grid Computing

Grid computing is believed to be ultimate solution for meeting the increasing computation needs of organizations. At present the major focus is on load balancing in Grid computing in order to improve the performance of grid. However, the user running an application on a remote machine in the grid-computing network requires assurance about privacy and integrity of his data. Similarly the local host requires a similar assurance regarding the client data and processes that run on the host. So the focus must be on the security of data and applications along with the high performance of the grid. The purpose of this paper is to explore the security problems in grid computing and the steps that can be taken to solve them.