2013 Symposium Posters

Project Members
Bilal Shebaro, Asmaa Sallam, Ashish Karma, Elisa Bertino

We propose to demonstrate the design, implementation, and the capabilities of an anomaly detection (AD) system integrated with a relational database management system (DBMS). Our AD system is trained by extracting relevant features from the parse-tree representation of the SQL commands, and then uses the DBMS roles as the classes for the bayesian classifier. In the detection phase, the maximum apriori probability role is chosen by the classifier which, if not matching the role associated with the SQL command, raises an alarm. We have implemented such system in the PostgreSQL DBMS, integrated with the statistics collection and the query processing mechanism of the DBMS. During the demonstration, our audience will be given the choice of training our system using either synthetic role-based SQL query traces based on probability sampling, or by entering their own set of training queries. In the subsequent detection mode, the audience can test the detection capabilities of the system by submitting arbitrary SQL commands. We will also allow the audience to generate arbitrary workloads to measure the overhead of the training phase and the detection phase of our AD mechanism on the performance of the DBMS.