Security Alarm Example
A typical scenario is to audit all accesses to databases and security-relevant events (such as the creation and deletion of users and the granting of special privileges). The Actian X security administrator, however, may decide that although access to certain tables should be monitored, imposing a general auditing control on all tables is not desired.
In this example assume that:
• Table “addresses” contains a list of addresses is to be audited. Updates or changes to existing information are to be recorded in the audit log.
• Table “all_summary”, a large database table, is used infrequently. Accesses are to be audited to determine whether it should be archived and deleted.
The following statements could be issued to audit security-related events:
ENABLE SECURITY_AUDIT SECURITY;
ENABLE SECURITY_AUDIT USER;
CREATE SECURITY_ALARM ON TABLE addresses
WHEN INSERT, UPDATE, DELETE;
CREATE SECURITY_ALARM ON TABLE all_summary;
Last modified date: 04/03/2024