This is the first book to provide an in-depth coverage of all the developments, issues and challenges in secure databases and applications. It provides directions for data and application security, including securing emerging applications such as bioinformatics, stream information processing and peer-to-peer computing. Divided into eight sections,

Foreword, Preface, Acknowledgments, About the Author, 1 Introduction, PART I: SUPPORTING TECHNOLOGIES FOR DATABASE AND APPLICATIONS SECURITY, PART II: DISCRETIONARY SECURITY FOR DATABASE SYSTEMS, PART III: MANDATORY SECURITY FOR DATABASE SYSTEMS, PART IV: MULTILEVEL SECURE RELATIONAL DATABASE SYSTEMS, PART V: THE INFERENCE PROBLEM, PART VI: SECURE DISTRIBUTED AND HETEROGENEOUS DATABASE SYSTEMS, PART VII: SECURE OBJECT AND MULTIMEDIA SYSTEMS, PART VIII: DATA WAREHOUSING, DATA MINING, SECURITY, AND PRIVACY, PART IX: SECURE WEB DATA AND INFORMATION MANAGEMENT TECHNOLOGIES, PART X: EMERGING SECURE DATA MANAGEMENT TECHNOLOGIES AND APPLICATIONS, Appendices, Index