A Literature Survey on Risk Assessment for Unix Operating System

Abstract

This proposed literature survey provides basic data regarding the first step of risk identification and analysis to achieve a secured infrastructure. The demand and risk are two parts of the same coin. The demand is directly proportional to the risk, but preventive control is inversely proportional to risk. The necessity of preventive control in any organization has increased because of the changes in logic, structure, and the type of technology applied to services that generate risks. Finally, the business increases along with technology, which creates risks and spreads over its infrastructure. We have to focus on protecting, detecting, correcting, verifying and validating the Unix file system. This survey article proposes and resolves the Unix file system by applying a hardening, re-configuration and access control mechanism up to the highest level of preventive control.