Mediation security specification and enforcement for heterogeneous databases

  • Authors:
  • Li Yang;Raimund K. Ege;Huiqun Yu

  • Affiliations:
  • Florida International University Miami, FL;Florida International University Miami, FL;East China University of Sci & Tech, Shanghai, China

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the 2005 ACM symposium on Applied computing
  • Year:
  • 2005

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Abstract

Information sharing among heterogeneous databases requires increasing attention and poses a pressing need. Successful protection of information by an effective access control mechanism is a basic requirement for interoperation among heterogeneous data sources. However, most existing work on access control focuses on access control model and security related information, little effort is devoted to exploring access control on the semantic-related heterogeneous databases. No current work resolves the security challenges faced by heterogeneous databases, i.e., context-aware authorization, semantic heterogeneity of databases and policy specification at different points. This paper proposes a mediation security system that secures the information sharing among heterogeneous databases with the promise to meet the above requirements. The proposed system models the flexible access control requirements specific to mediation security while providing uniform access for heterogeneous data sources.