Run-time Label Propagation for Forensic Audit Data


Author(s) Florian Buchholz and Eugene H. Spafford
TR-Number JMU-INFOSEC-TR-2006-001
Abstract It is desirable to be able to gather more forensically valuable audit data from computing systems than is currently done or possible. This is useful for the reconstruction of events that took place on the system for the purpose of digital forensic investigations. In this paper, we propose a mechanism that allows arbitrary meta-information bound to principals on a system to be propagated based on causality influenced by information flow. We further discuss how to implement such a mechanism for the FreeBSD operating system and present a proof-of-concept implementation that has little overhead compared to the system without label propagation.
Sponsor Prof. Florian Buchholz
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