Cross-tier, Label-based Security Enforcement for Web Applications

Summary: SELinks provides a uniform cross-tier model for secure web apps, with object-level labels guiding access across database and server data. Fable binds data to labels; policy code compiles to DB UDFs for in-query checks, boosting throughput vs single-tier. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 4187
Venue: SIGMOD
Year: 2009
Pagerank: 5.093636e-05
Overall Rank: 12,497 | 14.26%
DOI: 10.1145/1559845.1559875

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Authors

1. Brian J. Corcoran (University of Maryland)
2. Nikhil Swamy (Microsoft)
3. Michael Hicks (University of Maryland)

BibTeX Citation

@inproceedings{corcoran_sigmod09,
        title = {{Cross-tier, Label-based Security Enforcement for Web Applications}},
        author = {Corcoran, Brian J. and Swamy, Nikhil and Hicks, Michael},
        series = {{SIGMOD} '09},
        booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} International Conference on Management of Data},
        publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
        doi = {10.1145/1559845.1559875},
        url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/1559845.1559875},
        year = {2009}
}

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Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
292	LINQ: Reconciling Objects, Relations and XML in the .NET Framework	2006	SIGMOD	0.00022259549
552	Extending Query Rewriting Techniques for Fine-Grained Access Control	2004	SIGMOD	0.00016630306
2,134	Provenance Management in Curated Databases	2006	SIGMOD	9.1154913e-05

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