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Security issues for federated database systems

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Abstract

This paper describes security issues for federated database management systems set up for managing distributed, heterogeneous and autonomous multilevel databases. It builds on our previous work in multilevel secure distributed database management systems and on the results of others' work in federated database systems. In particular, we define a multilevel secure federated database system and discuss issues on heterogeneity, autonomy, security policy and architecture.

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Bhavani Thuraisingham is a lead engineer with the MITRE Corporation where she is working realtime database systems, massive database management, and database security. Her interests also include heterogeneous database integration, multimedia information systems, and object-oriented design and analysis techniques for developing various information systems applications. Her previous work at MITRE includes the design and implementation of a secure distributed database system, database inteference controller, and a secure multimedia/ object-oriented database system. She is a co-director of MITRE's Database Specialty Group and serves in the Corporate Technology Area Council in Database Systems.

Prior to joining MITRE, Dr Thuraisingham conducted research and development activities at Honeywell Inc., where her work included the design of the secure database system Lock Data Views, the design of a network operating system for space station applications, and the application of object-oriented technology for developing next-generation process control systems and for integrating heterogeneous data dictionaries. Before that she was at Control Data Corporation where she worked on the product development of CDCNET. She was also an adjunct professor of computer science and a member of the graduate faculty at the University of Minnesota. Her work has been published in over forty journal papers and numerous other conference/workshop papers.

Dr Thuraisingham gives tutorials in object-oriented database systems, heterogeneous database systems, secure database systems, and realtime database systems. She has co-edited a book on secure object-oriented systems for Springer, serves on editorial boards of the Journal of Computer Security and the Computer Standards and Interface Journal, and has served as the program chair or as program committee member for several conferences. Dr Thuraisingham received the MS degree in Computer Science from the University of Minnesota, the MSc degree in Mathematical Logic from the University of Bristol, UK, and the PhD degree in Computability Theory from the University of Wales, Swansea, UK.

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