A Model Driven Approach for Automatically Improving OLAP Legacy Applications with Security

Carlos Blanco, Eduardo Fernández-Medina, Juan Trujillo

2013

Abstract

The majority of the organizations store its historical business information in Data Warehouses (DW) which are queried to make strategic decisions by using On-Line Analytical Processing (OLAP) tools. This information has to be correctly assured for unauthorized accesses, but nevertheless there are a great amount of legacy OLAP applications that have been developed without considering security aspects or these have been incorporated once the system was implemented. This work defines a reverse engineering process that allows us to obtain the conceptual model corresponding to a legacy OLAP application, and also analyses and represents the security aspects that could have established. This process has been aligned with a model driven architecture for developing secure OLAP applications by defining the transformations needed to automatically apply it. Once the conceptual model has been extracted, it can be easily modified and improved with security, and automatically transformed to generate the new implementation.

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Blanco C., Fernández-Medina E. and Trujillo J. (2013). A Model Driven Approach for Automatically Improving OLAP Legacy Applications with Security . In Proceedings of the 10th International Workshop on Security in Information Systems - Volume 1: WOSIS, (ICEIS 2013) ISBN 978-989-8565-64-8, pages 76-85. DOI: 10.5220/0004609300760085


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@conference{wosis13,
author={Carlos Blanco and Eduardo Fernández-Medina and Juan Trujillo},
title={A Model Driven Approach for Automatically Improving OLAP Legacy Applications with Security},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 10th International Workshop on Security in Information Systems - Volume 1: WOSIS, (ICEIS 2013)},
year={2013},
pages={76-85},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0004609300760085},
isbn={978-989-8565-64-8},
}


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TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the 10th International Workshop on Security in Information Systems - Volume 1: WOSIS, (ICEIS 2013)
TI - A Model Driven Approach for Automatically Improving OLAP Legacy Applications with Security
SN - 978-989-8565-64-8
AU - Blanco C.
AU - Fernández-Medina E.
AU - Trujillo J.
PY - 2013
SP - 76
EP - 85
DO - 10.5220/0004609300760085