Forensic Analysis of Database Tampering

Summary: Proposes forensic analysis to determine who, when, and what after cryptographic tamper detection in databases. Introduces corruption diagrams and multi-level forensic algorithms—monochromatic, RGB, polychromatic—to gauge forensic strength and classify intrusion types (retroactive, backdating, postdating). (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: he9a06381ea06208e
Venue: SIGMOD
Year: 2006
Pagerank: 6.6154201e-05
Overall Rank: 4,397 | 70.44%
DOI: 10.1145/1142473.1142487

Incoming Non-self Citations Over Time

Authors

1. Kyriacos Pavlou (University of Arizona)
2. Richard T. Snodgrass (University of Arizona)

BibTeX Citation

@inproceedings{pavlou_sigmod06,
        title = {{Forensic Analysis of Database Tampering}},
        author = {Pavlou, Kyriacos and Snodgrass, Richard T.},
        series = {{SIGMOD} '06},
        booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} International Conference on Management of Data},
        publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
        doi = {10.1145/1142473.1142487},
        url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/1142473.1142487},
        year = {2006}
}

Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 3 of 3 citing papers.

Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
4,484	Threats to Privacy in the Forensic Analysis of Database Systems	2007	SIGMOD	6.5798533e-05
12,263	Database Forensic Analysis with DBCarver	2017	CIDR	4.9793485e-05
12,750	Building Disclosure Risk Aware Query Optimizers for Relational Databases	2010	VLDB	4.9793485e-05

Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 3 of 3 cited papers.

Citations counted here include only citations to other VLDB/SIGMOD/CIDR/PODS papers in this database.

Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
1,207	Immortal DB: Transaction Time Support for SQL Server	2005	SIGMOD	0.00011538247
4,920	Fossilized Index: The Linchpin of Trustworthy Non-Alterable Electronic Records	2005	SIGMOD	6.3525131e-05
5,063	Tamper Detection in Audit Logs	2004	VLDB	6.2908508e-05

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