Visible to the public A transparent middleware for encrypting data in MongoDB

TitleA transparent middleware for encrypting data in MongoDB
Publication TypeConference Paper
Year of Publication2014
AuthorsXingbang Tian, Baohua Huang, Min Wu
Conference NameElectronics, Computer and Applications, 2014 IEEE Workshop on
Date PublishedMay
KeywordsBlogs, cloud computing, cryptography, database, dataset level, Educational institutions, Encrypting, middleware, MongoDB, MongoDB database, NoSQL, NoSQL database, relational databases, security vulnerability, sensitive data encryption, Transparent Middleware
Abstract

Due to the development of cloud computing and NoSQL database, more and more sensitive information are stored in NoSQL databases, which exposes quite a lot security vulnerabilities. This paper discusses security features of MongoDB database and proposes a transparent middleware implementation. The analysis of experiment results show that this transparent middleware can efficiently encrypt sensitive data specified by users on a dataset level. Existing application systems do not need too many modifications in order to apply this middleware.

DOI10.1109/IWECA.2014.6845768
Citation Key6845768