Databases constitute the most ubiquitous applications in distributed military and commercial network infrastructures, many of which have stringent security requirements. The objective of this project was to develop Secure Access Wrapper (SAW) technology for securing access to commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) and legacy databases in very large-scale information systems. This technology will form the basis of an automated toolkit for generation of composable database security wrappers. Databases wrapped by SAWs can then combine to form scalable, secure information systems, enabling elimination of paper-based approval methods for external information requests.

For more information, read the project overview.

Publications:

• Secure Interoperation of Heterogeneous Systems: A Mediator-Based Approach
• Protecting Privacy when Disclosing Information: k-Anonymity and its Enforcement through Generalization and Suppression
• Protecting Inappropriate Release of Data from Realistic Databases

Subcontract PI:

• Gio Wiederhold, Computer Science Department, Stanford University

Sponsor Information

This project is sponsored by the Information Technology Office (ITO) of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) as part of the Information Survivability program (focus area: Wrappers and Composition).

Related Information:

• Stanford University's SAW subcontract
• The TIHI project

• Dr. Steven Dawson

• Data Security  (1999)
• Security Issues in Data Warehousing and Data Mining: Panel Discussion  (1998)