Blockchain, also part of the cryptocurrencies, can be viewed as a potentially shared/semi-shared/private, the immutable ledger for recording sequence of events or history of transactions. The blockchain technology can be deployed to provide a high-degree of trust, accountability, and transparency associated with a set of transactions/events – especially log files and data provenance. Data provenance … full description “Blockchain to provide Data Provenance Integrity and Privacy (completed)”
Category: User and Data Privacy
Building a Full Causality Chain Across an Enterprise System (completed)
Data Provenance refers to records of the inputs, entities, systems and process that influence data of interest, providing a historical record of the data and its origins. To provide a holistic view of the data provenance in an enterprise system, the provenance records of the activities carried out on a client workstation is important. Last … full description “Building a Full Causality Chain Across an Enterprise System (completed)”
Building Data Provenance from Database Log Files (completed)
Databases are an integral part of any organisations operations. They act as storage repositories for a large set of data that the respective organisation relies upon for their efficient operations. One of the commonly deployed and open source database application is MySQL. It collects and stores a large set of log files related to the … full description “Building Data Provenance from Database Log Files (completed)”
Data Provenance for Multi-Database Servers Enterprise Architecture (completed)
Enterprise architecture, with increasing frequencies, is based on multiple databases that split the enterprise data among itself and store them on separate database servers. Such a scheme enables an effective load balancing and management of enterprise data. However, my splitting data over multiple databases make it challenging to build a unified data provenance view of … full description “Data Provenance for Multi-Database Servers Enterprise Architecture (completed)”
Privacy issues related to Data Provenance of Database containing End-user Data (completed)
Privacy issues related to the data stored, regarding end-users are well understood and studies. However, a large set of data can also be collected that is not directly related to the user but related to the user data – known as data provenance. Data provenance is the field of recording the history of data, from … full description “Privacy issues related to Data Provenance of Database containing End-user Data (completed)”
Real-Time Consumer Centric Data Compliance Auditing (completed)
When a user signs an end user agreement with an organisation, in return of which (s)he will give his/her data to the organisation the users do not have; a) any mechanism to assess that post-agreement the organisation abides by their own agreement and b) to see the operations carried on his/her data (that the organisation … full description “Real-Time Consumer Centric Data Compliance Auditing (completed)”
Real-Time Enterprise System Compliance Auditing with GDPR (completed)
Data compliance audit is a comprehensive review of an organization’s adherence to regulatory guidelines. Traditionally, security or IT consultants evaluate the strength and thoroughness of compliance preparations – usually carried out once a year. With the enforcement of GDPR upon us, a real-time view of compliance could safe an organisation a substantial penalty (4% of … full description “Real-Time Enterprise System Compliance Auditing with GDPR (completed)”
Smart Home Privacy Framework – Giving Right of Data Control to Individual Users (available)
Project Description The smart home is a collection of intelligent sensors and actuators that collect information of their vicinity with varying granularity. The collected data is of various formats audio, video, action (turn on and off buttons) and text, etc. Furthermore, these sensors will be collecting data from every person active in the vicinity. Separating … full description “Smart Home Privacy Framework – Giving Right of Data Control to Individual Users (available)”
System Provenance Collection from a Client Workstation (completed)
A client workstation in an enterprise network is used by individual employees. They use this workstation to perform different activities, including accessing the data stored in the enterprise data repositories (i.e., Database). These activities, which relate to accessing the data and then using it on a workstation are the crucial missing element in data compliance … full description “System Provenance Collection from a Client Workstation (completed)”
System Provenance Collection from a Database Server (completed)
A database server is a collection of an Operating System (OS) at its core that hosts a database – accessible from various services and devices in an enterprise network. The activities observed on the database server are of immense importance to show compliance with data governance policies. A crucial element of such a compliance is … full description “System Provenance Collection from a Database Server (completed)”