From MDM to DB2: a case study of security enforcement migration

  • Authors:
  • Nikolay Yakovets;Jarek Gryz;Stephanie Hazlewood;Paul van Run

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Computer Science and Engineering, York University, Canada, Centre for Advanced Studies, IBM Canada, Canada;Department of Computer Science and Engineering, York University, Canada, Centre for Advanced Studies, IBM Canada, Canada;IBM Canada, Canada;IBM Canada, Canada

  • Venue:
  • DBSec'12 Proceedings of the 26th Annual IFIP WG 11.3 conference on Data and Applications Security and Privacy
  • Year:
  • 2012

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Abstract

This work presents a case study of a migration of attribute-based access control enforcement from the application to the database tier. The proposed migration aims to improve the security and simplify the audit of the enterprise system by enforcing information protection principles of the least privileges and the least common mechanism. We explore the challenges of such migration and implement it in an industrial setting in a context of master data management where data security, privacy and audit are subject to regulatory compliance. Based on our implementation, we propose a general, standards-driven migration methodology.