Building secure multidimensional data management system

Abstract

Nowadays one should not underestimate importance of informational technologies across all fields of humans’ life. Computational technologies and tools became crucial parts of any human activity. However, since information is becoming a strategic resource, it is necessary to ensure its security by all means. A large number of contemporary studies have been carried on in the field of informational security. Recently, multidimensional information technologies have become popular for data analysis and processing. This has led to a contradiction between ever growing demand of multidimensional data processing systems and inability to properly secure such system due to insufficient research within this field. As a result, sensitive multidimensional data cannot be securely processed due to lack of proper secure systems able to ensure appropriate level of informational security. Authors decided to develop such system. The paper proposes architecture of multidimensional data management system capable of secure information management built up as a multidimensional hypercube. Proposed architecture consists of a description of main system components, a description of task performed by those components and principles of their communication. The paper describes a way to build a system which ensures safe read/write operations for confidential information organized as multidimensional hypercube. The proposed solution allows secure processing of sensitive multidimensional data and therefore extending the area where such systems can be used.

Keywords

• data warehouses, search queries, cryptographic protocols, authentication, multidimensional data.