DEFINITION This entry considers how to build secure database system software. In particular, it describes how to build a general-purpose database management system where security is an important design parameter. For the database community the words secure database design may refer to the schema design to produce a database for a specific application with some level of security properties. Ther...

The most commercially available database provides security facility for a single table. However the situation has been changed, as enterprises move from local database to information backbone composed of cooperating heterogeneous database and then direct sharing of information between enterprise on the Internet. A strict security measure at database level is essential for a secure database desi...