Secure Mediated Databases

  • Authors:
  • K. Selçuk Candan;Sushil Jajodia;V. S. Subrahmanian

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-;-

  • Venue:
  • ICDE '96 Proceedings of the Twelfth International Conference on Data Engineering
  • Year:
  • 1996

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Abstract

With the evolution of the information superhighway, there is now an immense amount of information available in a wide variety of databases. Furthermore, users often have the ability to access legacy software packages developed by external sources. However, sometimes both the information provided by a data source, as well as one or more of the functions available through a software package may be sensitive-in such cases, organizations require that access by users be controlled. HERMES (HEterogeneous Reasoning and MEdiator System) is a platform that has been developed at the University of Maryland within which mediators may be designed and implemented. HERMES has already been used for a number of applications. In this paper, we provide a formal model of security in mediated systems. We then develop techniques that are sound and complete and respect security constraints of packages/databases participating in the mediated system. The security constraints described an this paper have been implemented, and we describe the existing implementation.