Multilevel Secure Transaction Processing

Vijay Atluri is an Assistant Professor of Computer Information Systems and Member of the Center for Information Management, Integration and Connectivity in the Management Science and Information Systems Department at Rutgers University, Newark, NJ, USA Dr. Sushil Jajodia is Professor and Chairman of the Dept. of Information and Software Engineering, and Director of the Center for Secure Information Systems at the George Mason University, Fairfax, Virginia, USA

1. Introduction.- 1 Multilevel Secure Databases.- 2 Advanced Database Application Domains.- 3 Organization of the book.- 2. Traditional Transaction Processing.- 1 ACID Requirements.- 2 Concurrency Control Protocols.- 3 Commit Protocols.- 3. Transaction Processing in Mls Databases.- 1 Problems with solutions in traditional environment.- 2 Revised Requirements.- 3 Commercial Solutions.- 4 Research Solutions for Replicated Architecture.- 5 Research Solutions for Kernelized Architecture.- 4. Secure Transaction Processing in Real-Time Databases.- 1 Introduction to Real-Time Databases.- 2 Additional Requirements.- 3 Concurrency Control.- 4 Conclusions.- 5. Secure Workflow Transaction Processing.- 1 Introduction to Workflow Systems.- 2 Workflow Transaction Model.- 3 Multilevel Secure Workflow Model.- 4 Solutions to Execute MLS Workflows.- 5 The MLS WFMS Architecture.- 6. Secure Buffer Management.- 1 Introduction to Buffer Management.- 2 Requirements.- 3 Solutions.- 4 Secure Real-Time Database Buffer Management.- 5 Conclusions.- 7. Applications to Hierarchical and Replicated Databases.- 1 Hierarchical Databases.- 2 Replicated Databases.- 8. Challenges.- 1 Using advanced transaction model paradigms.- 2 Secure Long Duration Transaction Processing.- 3 Recovery Methods.- References.