Title: Confidentiality modelling and simulation and validation in a simplified database access

Authors: Marn-Ling Shing, Chen-Chi Shing, Kuo Lane Chen, Huei Lee

Addresses: Early Child Education Department and Program of Child Development, Taipei Municipal University of Education, 1 Ai-Kuo West Road, Taipei, Taiwan, ROC. ' Information Technology Department, Radford University, Box 6933, Radford, VA 24142, USA. ' College of Business, University of Southern Mississippi, Hattiesburg, MS 39406, USA. ' Department of Computer Information Systems, Eastern Michigan University, Ypsilanti, MI 48197, USA

Abstract: In a simplified secured database access model, privileged group and public group can access data with any distribution. In order to secure the database, the confidentiality policy must be applied. Often, the management of the database privacy is neglected because data integrity has a higher priority in an environment dealing with insensitive data. This paper looked into the data confidentiality management and suggested use semi-Markov chains to model the security policy. A simulation experiment was used to validate the model.

Keywords: information security; security modelling; Markov chain model; simulation; database access security; confidentiality modelling; database privacy; data management.

DOI: 10.1504/IJCBDD.2009.030116

International Journal of Computational Biology and Drug Design, 2009 Vol.2 No.3, pp.252 - 263

Published online: 10 Dec 2009 *

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