Schema Reconstruction in Database Forensics

Adedayo and Olivier

2014

Citation information

O. M. Adedayo and M. S. Olivier. “Schema Reconstruction in Database Forensics”. In: Advances in Digital Forensics X. Ed. by G. Peterson and S. Shenoi. Springer, 2014, pp. 101–116

Abstract

Although considerable research has been conducted in the area of data- base forensics over the past few years, several aspects of database forensics remain to be considered. One of the challenges facing database forensics is that the results of forensic analysis may be inconsistent with the raw data contained in a database because of changes made to the metadata. This paper describes the various types of changes that can be made to a database schema by an attacker and shows how metadata changes can aﬀect query results. Techniques for reconstructing the original database schema are also described.

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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-662-44952-3_8

BibTeX reference

@inproceedings(schemarec,
author={Oluwasola Mary Adedayo and Martin S Olivier},
title={Schema Reconstruction in Database Forensics},
pages={101--116},
booktitle={Advances in Digital Forensics X},
editor={Peterson, Gilbert and Shenoi, Sujeet},
publisher={Springer},
year={2014} )