Database Security in RDF Terms

Abstract

Abstract Databases are perhaps the most attacked and vulnerable elements in the online environment as far as organizations are concerned. The databases contain the most important information of an organization and its confidential data, along with those of its customers. However, little of the effort dedicated to security is intended to protect data. The present paper draws attention to the need to implement a simple and then complex security in a database using RDF (Resource Description Framework) based descriptions. Our example is one implemented for Microsoft Access and covers different security level descriptions considering attack types. We choose to represent the basic concepts and abstract syntax using the RDF data modeling vocabulary and we’re using as a starting point a legacy relational database where the company already catalogued attacks.