Information warfare: a lightweight matrix-based approach for database recovery

Abstract

The age of Internet technology has introduced new types of attacks to new assets that did not exist before. Databases that represent information assets are subject to attacks that have malicious intentions, such as stealing sensitive data, deleting records or violating the integrity of the database. Many counter measures have been designed and implemented to protect the databases and the information they host from attacks. While preventive measures could be overcome and detection measures could detect an attack late after damage has occurred, there is a need for a recovery algorithm that will recover the database to its correct previous state before the attack. Numerous damage assessment and recovery algorithms have been proposed by researchersIn this work, we present an efficient lightweight detection and recovery algorithm that is based on the matrix approach and that can be used to recover from malicious attacks. We compare our algorithm with other approaches and show the performance results.