Security for Data Stream Management System

There emerge new applications, such as environment monitoring, Web click streams, and network traffic monitoring, where data are in a form of streams that continuously arrive, usually in high speed and with changing data distribution. Due to the unbounded data volume and the real-time continuous high rate data collection and processing characteristics of those applications, traditional database management systems are not suitable to manage them. To fill in the gap, researchers have proposed a new type of systems, called Data Stream Management Systems (DSMS). Like traditional database management systems, DSMS need to provide security mechanisms to protect streams of data along with the system against malicious attacks in sensitive applications. The special characteristics of data stream applications raise new issues that must be considered when developing security mechanisms for DSMS. This paper discusses those issues, reviews how they have been addressed in the literature, and identifies future research directions.

In Security in computing and networking systems: the state-of-the-art, Eds. William McQuay and Walled W. Smari.