Information security concerns the confidentiality, integrity, and
availability of information processed by a computer system. With an
emphasis on prevention, traditional information security research has
focused little on the ability to survive successful attacks, which can
seriously impair the integrity and availability of a system.
Trusted Recovery And Defensive Information Warfare uses database
trusted recovery, as an example, to illustrate the principles of trusted
recovery in defensive information warfare. Traditional database recovery
mechanisms do not address trusted recovery, except for complete
rollbacks, which undo the work of benign transactions as well as
malicious ones, and compensating transactions, whose utility depends on
application semantics. Database trusted recovery faces a set of unique
challenges. In particular, trusted database recovery is complicated
mainly by (a) the presence of benign transactions that depend, directly
or indirectly on malicious transactions; and (b) the requirement by many
mission-critical database applications that trusted recovery should be
done on-the-fly without blocking the execution of new user
transactions.
Trusted Recovery And Defensive Information Warfare proposes a new
model and a set of innovative algorithms for database trusted recovery.
Both read-write dependency based and semantics based trusted recovery
algorithms are proposed. Both static and dynamic database trusted
recovery algorithms are proposed. These algorithms can typically save a
lot of work by innocent users and can satisfy a variety of attack
recovery requirements of real world database applications.
Trusted Recovery And Defensive Information Warfare is suitable as a
secondary text for a graduate level course in computer science, and as a
reference for researchers and practitioners in information security.
