Mechanisms for database intrusion detection and response

  • Authors:
  • Ashish Kamra;Elisa Bertino;Guy Lebanon

  • Affiliations:
  • Purdue University;Purdue University;Purdue University

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the 2nd SIGMOD PhD workshop on Innovative database research
  • Year:
  • 2008

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Abstract

Data represent today a valuable asset for companies and organizations and must be protected. Most of an organization's sensitive and proprietary data resides in a Database Management System (DBMS). The focus of this thesis is to develop advanced security solutions for protecting the data residing in a DBMS. Our strategy is to develop an Intrusion Detection (ID) mechanism, implemented within the database server, that is capable of detecting anomalous user requests to a DBMS. The key idea is to learn profiles of users and applications interacting with a database. A database request that deviates from these profiles is then termed as anomalous. A major component of this work involves prototype implementation of this ID mechanism in the Post-greSQL database server. We also propose to augment the ID mechanism with an Intrusion Response engine that is capable of issuing an appropriate response to an anomalous database request.