Integrated intrusion detection in databases

  • Authors:
  • José Fonseca;Marco Vieira;Henrique Madeira

  • Affiliations:
  • CISUC, Department of Informatics Engineering, University of Coimbra, Portugal;CISUC, Department of Informatics Engineering, University of Coimbra, Portugal;CISUC, Department of Informatics Engineering, University of Coimbra, Portugal

  • Venue:
  • LADC'07 Proceedings of the Third Latin-American conference on Dependable Computing
  • Year:
  • 2007

Quantified Score

Hi-index 0.00

Visualization

Abstract

Database management systems (DBMS), which are the ultimate layer in preventing malicious data access or corruption, implement several security mechanisms to protect data. However these mechanisms cannot always stop malicious users from accessing the data by exploiting system vulnerabilities. In fact, when a malicious user accesses the database there is no effective way to detect and stop the attack in due time. This practical experience report presents a tool that implements concurrent intrusion detection in DBMS. This tool analyses the transactions the users execute and compares them with the profile of the authorized transactions that were previously learned in order to detect potential deviations. The tool was evaluated using the transactions from a standard database benchmark (TPC-W) and a real database application. Results show that the proposed intrusion detection tool can effectively detect SQL-based attacks with no false positives and no overhead to the server.