Distributed System Security in Fitness Industry

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DISTRIBUTED SYSTEM SECURITY IN FITNESS INDUSTRY
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Introduction
The fitness industry deals with numerous computing process and methods which is
benefited by the distributed computing systems which allow multiple heterogeneous or
homogenous workstations and computer to perform as a unified computing environment. The
fitness managers in this environment are allowed to access the remote and local business
resources for operating various business processes. In this computing environment, the fitness
officials deal with numerous sensitive data and thus require a tight security (Abadi et al. 2016).
This research proposal will be aiming at some security concerns of distributed systems in a
technology and fitness industry. In this research study various security system will be involved
for which various literatures will be reviewed. Finally, the research provides recommendation
and future scope of the research study dealing with various key areas in distributed system
security.
This research study will be aiming at securing different distributed systems in the fitness
industry from external threats and risks. The computing environment is surrounded with multiple
threats and risks as many attackers try to phish the sensitive information for their sole benefit
(Ghosh 2014). This research study will be helpful for multiple fitness firms to strengthen the
security of their distributed system.
The objectives of this research study will be as follows:
 To know the importance of distributed systems in the fitness industry.
 To analyze various models of distributed computing system.
 To determine various security measures to protect the distributed computing
environment.

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The research questions that will be used to achieve the research aim and objectives are stated
below:
 What is the importance of Distributed Computing system in a fitness firm?
 What are the different models of distributed computing system?
 What are the security measures used to protect the system from external environment?
Literature Review
Distributed Computing System
In computer science, distributed system is described as a single unified system of
distributed processes, processors and computers altogether by common communication network
or medium for transmitting messages (Orgerie, Assuncao and Lefevre 2014). These messages
can be transmitted by logically or physically.
The advantages of distributed computing are as follows:
 Development in Business Performance: The multiple nodes of the distributed system
allow the fitness industry to process their operations in a parallel manner. This increases
the performance level of the business applications. Sharing of the Resources: Distributed system allow sufficient access to the resources
and this helps the business to easily share and distribute its key resources among various
departments. Developed Extendibility: The distributed systems are developed to be adaptive and
modular. The file storage capacity and the computing operations can be increased by the
fitness firms by increasing the number of nodes in the system (Zhao et al. 2014).

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 Developed Availability, Fault tolerance and Reliability: The collection of multiple
storage and computing resources can help the fitness firms to reduce the possibility of
data redundancy and can also help them to increase the fault tolerability level.
Using Distributed computing environment in the fitness firms can also have some
disadvantages too like:
 Heterogeneity: Distributed Systems allow a user to access data from various business
resources. This can allow multiple attackers to easily access the sensitive information and
misuse them in various means. Openness: Openness feature of the distributed system can also increase security concern
for the fitness industry (Maksimov 2014). Scalability: The increased scalability also increases the number of resources and users
which increases the security threats for the fitness firms. Trust and Security: Operating as an industry, the fitness firms have to deal with huge
data. These data can be highly sensitive to multiple individuals and the distributed
computing environment requires huge security measures to protect the environment from
attackers.
Various models of Distributed Computing System
The distributed computing can be divided in four models:
Cluster Computing: In this model, set of computer are connected together for
communicating with high speed. This group of computers are presented as a single system to the
users. This model can help the fitness firms to increase the computing power and performance.