Information security concerns the confidentiality, integrity,
and availability of information processed by a computer system. With
an emphasis on prevention, traditional information security research
has focused little on the ability to survive successful attacks, which
can seriously impair the integrity and availability of a system.

Trusted Recovery And Defensive Information Warfare uses database
trusted recovery, as an example, to illustrate the principles of
trusted recovery in defensive information warfare. Traditional
database recovery mechanisms do not address trusted recovery, except
for complete rollbacks, which undo the work of benign transactions as
well as malicious ones, and compensating transactions, whose utility
depends on application semantics. Database trusted recovery faces a
set of unique challenges. In particular, trusted database recovery is
complicated mainly by (a) the presence of benign transactions that
depend, directly or indirectly on malicious transactions; and (b) the
requirement by many mission-critical database applications that
trusted recovery should be done on-the-fly without blocking the
execution of new user transactions.

Trusted Recovery And Defensive Information Warfare proposes a
new model and a set of innovative algorithms for database trusted
recovery. Both read-write dependency based and semantics based trusted
recovery algorithms are proposed. Both static and dynamic database
trusted recovery algorithms are proposed. These algorithms can
typically save a lot of work by innocent users and can satisfy a
variety of attack recovery requirements of real world database
applications.

Trusted Recovery And Defensive Information Warfare is suitable
as a secondary text for a graduate level course in computer science,
and as a reference for researchers and practitioners in information
security.