WRITING AND ANALIZING AN ARTICLE

WRITING AND ANALIZING AN ARTICLE

Database Security: What Students Need to Know

Executive Summary
 
Database security is a growing concern evidenced by an increase in the number of reported incidents of loss of or unauthorized exposure to sensitive data. As the amount of data collected, retained and shared electronically expands, so does the need to understand database security. The Defense Information Systems Agency of the US Department of Defense (2004), in its Database Security Technical Implementation Guide, states that database security should provide controlled, protected access to the contents of a database as well as preserve the integrity, consistency, and overall quality of the data. Students in the computing disciplines must develop an understanding of the issues and challenges related to database security and must be able to identify possible solutions.
 
At its core, database security strives to insure that only authenticated users perform authorized activities at authorized times. While database security incorporates a wide array of security topics, not with standing, physical security, network security, encryption and authentication, this paper focuses on the concepts and mechanisms particular to securing data. Within that context, database security encompasses three constructs: confidentiality or protection of data from unauthorized disclosure, integrity or prevention from unauthorized data access, and availability or the identification of and recovery from hardware and software errors or malicious activity resulting in the denial of data availability.
 
In the computing discipline curricula, database security is often included as a topic in an introductory database or introductory computer security course. This paper presents a set of sub-topics that might be included in a database security component of such a course. Mapping to the three constructs of data security, these topics include access control, application access, vulnerability, inference, and auditing mechanisms. Access control is the process by which rights and privileges are assigned to users and database objects. Application access addresses the need to assign appropriate access rights to external applications requiring a database connection. Vulnerability refers to weaknesses that allow malicious users to exploit resources. Inference refers to the use of legitimate data to infer unknown information without having rights to directly retrieve that information.
 
Database auditing tracks database access and user activity providing a way to identify breaches that have occurred so that corrective action might be taken.

A. INTRODUCTION

a. Talking about the general description

•Description (Database Design)

•Reports (Taken from other sources: books,….)

•Conclusion

b. Talking about the purpose

•The purpose (Data base)

•Other sources talk about the purposes

•The Conclusion of purpose

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d. Present sub-topics will discuss further

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B. Sub-topic 1 (Access Control)

•Purpose

•Characteristics

•Providing the examples

•Conclusion or review the next sub-topic

 

C. Sub-topic 2 (Procedure)

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D. Conclusion

•General description

•Facts

•Purpose

•Benefits

•Suggestion

•Recommendation