Process mining and security: visualization in database intrusion detection

  • Authors:
  • Viet H. Huynh;An N. T. Le

  • Affiliations:
  • University of Information Technology, Ho Chi Minh, Viet Nam;University of Information Technology, Ho Chi Minh, Viet Nam

  • Venue:
  • PAISI'12 Proceedings of the 2012 Pacific Asia conference on Intelligence and Security Informatics
  • Year:
  • 2012

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Abstract

Nowadays, more and more organizations keep their valuable and sensitive data in Database Management Systems (DBMSs). The traditional database security mechanisms such as access control mechanisms, authentication, data encryption technologies do not offer a strong enough protection against the exploitation of vulnerabilities (e.g. intrusions) in DBMSs from insiders. Intrusion detection systems recently proposed in the literature focus on statistical approaches, which are not intuitive. Our research is the first ever effort to use process mining modeling low-level event logs for database intrusion detection. We have proposed a novel approach for visualizing database intrusion detection using process mining techniques. Our experiments showed that intrusion detection visualization will be able to help security officers who might not know deeply the complex system, identify the true positive detection and eliminate the false positive results.